Headlines from November 26, 2012
- Interactive: See which U.S. metro coastal areas may someday be underwater.
- A result of fossil fuel burning, ocean acidification is withering the marine food chain.
- British code breakers can’t crack a handwritten message found on a WWII carrier pigeon.
- The idea of a New York City mayoral race without a serious Jewish entrant is hard to fathom.
- Why would I ever want to retire? I love what I do. The best Larry Hagman stories, collected.
- A study shows drinkers get angrier faster on liquor than beer. #drinking
- In addition to other bodily harm, smoking is now also linked to cognitive decline.
- Retail workers agree that for some unknown reason, shoppers defecate in dressing rooms. #shopping
- Spelunking on Earth, astronauts bound for the International Space Station return with a new life form.
- Watch the 2011 documentary Brian Eno 1971-1977: The Man Who Fell to Earth. via #video
- The man responsible for inventing the floppy disk also has patents on the CD, karaoke machine, and “B-bust” bra.
- “I’m trying to break the stereotype that all gays and lesbians, especially lesbians, are Democrats.”
- Q&A with Dan Schneider from Head of the Class, who went on to create iCarly and other Nickelodeon hits.
- Johnny Manziel’s parents on raising a Heisman front-runner and all-around hell-raiser. #football
- Congo again slips into chaos and war, though ruthless rebels prove to be capable administrators.
- Portraits of Sandy survivors in storm-ravaged Staten Island. #photography
- Whether in 50 or 100 or 200 years, there’s a good chance that New York City will sink beneath the sea.
- Considering overpopulation and the end of the world: Is it acceptable anymore to have children?
- Father sends letter of “bitter, bitter” disappointment to his grown children and asks them to stay out of touch.
- The belief that spinach is full of iron derives from a copying error.
- If you eat here only twice a week, you can consider yourself a person of great restraint. Trillin dines on Mexican cuisine.
- Excellent, lucid report on the current status of drug wars in Mexico.
- News and analysis of Damien Hirst’s plummet from profits.
- On paper, China’s mega-cities are astonishing; in reality, they’re unlivable. #opinions
- Pictures and tour of modern art to see in Fort Worth, Texas.
- Face-making. Basket-making. Blow the grounsils. From the 1800s, 17 euphemisms for sex.
- Seventy-two-year-old grandfather becomes e-commerce sensation after modeling teen girls’ clothes.
- Blind reporter attends world’s largest rattlesnake round-up. #longreads
- French president Hollande and his wife are happy to meet you in their garden.
- All in all, this was a sort of creepy shipment. Shopping chronicles of the programmer who created a bot to send him random things from Amazon.