Headlines from December 5, 2012
- Even the White House wanted tighter restrictions on drones, in case the program fell into the wrong hands: Romney’s.
- Russia’s current political climate: “Everyone knows (and has evidence) that everyone else has been skimming money.”
- New York real estate developers continue to ignore risks, unveil plans for housing within the flood plain.
- The sperm count of French men dropped by 32.3% between 1989 and 2005.
- India takes aim at the nagging problem of public urinators.
- Bloomberg challenges designers to reinvent the payphone.
- New personal devices can monitor and diagnose medical conditions—it’s the first step toward a tricorder. #technology
- Scientists develop a breath test that can diagnose bowel cancer with overall 76% accuracy. #health
- Related: Paging Dr. Google. #tmn
- Fantastic: GIFs of chemistry and physics experiments. #science
- Jay-Z very sweetly explains who he is to a woman on the subway. #video
- Once a health food for the elite, now peanut butter is the everyman sandwich filling. #food
- Find out how you can become a judge in the 2013 Tournament of Books. #therooster
- German publishers use paper from endangered rainforests to print children’s books. #books
- Sarasota County police investigate if an unsolved murder from 1959 may have been committed by the same pair from In Cold Blood.
- Her starrise has come to a stop at a moderate level. Nabokov pitches astronaut melodrama to Hitchcock.
- Death toll from southern Philippines typhoon passes 270.
- Insourcing boom: General Electric and others begin returning manufacturing to the United States.
- Republican leaders punish Tea Party loyalists and other back-benchers.
- In case you needed another reason to hate Congressional Republicans: Meet the Sovereigntists.
- Obama considering Vogue’s Anna Wintour for diplomat to UK or France.
- Britain’s recession, 40,000 dead in Syria, and other stories you won’t hear about because Kate Middleton is pregnant.
- It’s hard, but don’t stress out! Snooki offers parenting advice to the royal couple.
- Increasing numbers of Middle Eastern men going under the knife to attain the perfect mustache.
- Related: Pictures of Turkey’s Ibrahim Tatlises, mustache king.
- Study finds preemptive ibuprofen use, to combat muscle soreness, offers no benefits, only damages.
- Thirteen minutes of Russian traffic accidents. #video
- San Francisco can become a world capital; first it needs to get over itself. #opinions
- Behavior complaints up 25% on French trains; offenders may be sent on “citizenship courses.”
- At four-year American universities, 43% of all grades are As—increase of 28% since 1960.
- If you enjoyed yesterday’s reviews of 2012’s best board games, here are archives going back to 2005. #tmn
- In recommending the magazine that refuses Southern clichés, Dwight Garner can’t refuse Southern clichés.
- Gina Gershon, you shocked me raw! John Waters’ best films of 2012. via
- Gift for writers in your family: Literary Journal of the Month Club.
- Short true story of the Japanese porn actor who died in a kamikaze attack on a right-wing leader in 1976.