Headlines from November 29, 2012
- Today Syria disconnected from the internet.
- Another hardship for coastal residents in New York and New Jersey: mandatory flood insurance.
- Food systems produce between a fifth and third of…greenhouse gases. Climate change in the kitchen.
- Tumblr of the day: Eating Carefully.
- They’re convinced that it just so happens that their self-interest coincides perfectly with the collective interest.
- Doctors accuse each other of agendas after a study claims long-distance running harms older athletes. #health
- Patients with heart devices fight for access to the information their chests are transmitting. #technology
- Related: Inspired by a fitness-tracking device, a new ideal for living. #tmn
- Jeffrey Goldberg and Jonathan Rauch discuss why gays should carry firearms. #video
- A new kind of gun scope tags a target, then fires once the gun is aimed perfectly at the target. #video
- What we really want from our robots: “the possibility of machines making their own moral progress.”
- The xx opens its exhibition, called “Missing,” in LA. #video
- The New Museum takes a trip all the way back to 1993 New York. #video
- On Monday, New York City passed a day without a single report of a person being subject to violent crime.
- Time-lapse movie of leaves changing color in Central Park. #video
- Mitt Romney to eat lunch at the White House today.
- If you own a large swimming pool, show them a photo. Slightly awkward WikiHow guide to filling awkward silences.
- Moscow court demands Pussy Riot videos removed from YouTube and other sites.
- Spain offers new deal: Buy a house, receive Spanish residency papers.
- In America’s early years, the government presided over numerous bailouts of states until the mid-1840s.
- Cass Sunstein’s “Holiday Shopping Tips From a Behavioral Economist.”
- Contrarian executives attack the mantra of maximizing shareholder returns.
- The ultrarich, including me, will forever pursue investment opportunities. Buffett demands minimum tax on high incomes.
- Michael Jordan banned from snooty golf club after declining to wear shorts.
- Video game designers describe the agony of trying to replicate “Gangnam Style’s” choreography.
- Q&A with Spencer Manio, the man who picks the music you hear at the mall.
- Analysis of demonology found in most episodes of Dora the Explorer.
- Once we determine how the jellyfish rejuvenates itself, we should achieve very great things. #longreads
- Roundtable on the death of mp3-sharing blogs.
- I honestly feel no responsibility or obligation to artists. TMN’s roundtable with top mp3 bloggers from 2004.