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.