Headlines from December 12, 2012
- What they don’t often consider is whether that waste will flow outside that zone. How the U.S. let industry pollute its underground water supply.
- Medical evidence continues to prove daily aspirin can help prevent cardiovascular disease and even cancer—why aren’t more people taking it? #opinions
- Study suggests women who are light smokers—smoking even one cigarette a day—double their chance of sudden death. #health
- In the U.S., average milk consumption has dropped by almost 30% since 1975—butter, sugar, and booze are up. #food
- Tumblr of the day: Cats that look like pinup girls. via
- Office workers are interrupted—or self-interrupt—roughly every three minutes. Why we can’t get anything done.
- Couples flock to get married on the last “triple-date likely to occur in their lifetimes”—a generous use of “likely.”
- The New York Times fluff piece the last time it was 12/12/12. #history
- Jeep ramps, movie production, and other outlandish stories from Mexico’s drug war in 2012.
- Target shelves Anna Karenina in the “emerging authors” book section. #books
- I didn’t grow a beard or move to Vermont. Lewis Lapham’s drug diary.
- Owner of Ikea monkey considering legal action to retain custody. #animals
- Keeping up with the future of weather prediction in an age of powerful storms. #tmn
- Nirvana reputedly to reunite for the Hurricane Sandy benefit tonight with Paul McCartney on vocals. #music
- Sitar legend Ravi Shankar dies, age 92. #obit
- Google’s 2012 in review. #video
- White House recognizes Syrian rebels and seeks greater influence.
- The racist representation of Arabs is so exponential that one does not know where to begin. Homeland, Obama’s show. #opinions
- The idea that political views have a genetic component is now widely accepted, and has its own field: “genopolitics.”
- Philosopher goes anti-natalist, rebelling against notion that philosophers must be parents first.
- Economist addresses whether it’s better to dry your hands with a paper towel or with an air dryer.
- If all goes as planned, vultures may again consume the Parsi dead by January 2014.
- Notes on the insiders and influencers who have brought America to the “brink of a gay-marriage tipping point.”
- Louis C.K. fights Vanity Fair’s Proust questionnaire.
- Book explains minutia of American life to Russian readers.
- Study finds millennials like to read the news as much as their grandparents, and pretty much in the same exact format.
- Americans are suckers for cartoon superheroes—Lance Armstrong, David Petraeus, Joe Paterno. #opinions
- Even as I tweak the dorks of the music world, I can hear my own cry. Duncan Murrell on the anxiety inherent to “authenticity” in New Orleans music. #longreads
- TMN-endorsed holiday shopping: Ellen Ullmann e-books for only $3.
- Also endorsed: Field Notes’ new backcountry-ready notebooks and Space Pens.
- Historical account of “wild” Christmas shows the holiday’s real history without consumerism’s whitewash. #tmn
- See also: Choire Sicha responds to a little girl’s incoherent “Dear Santa” letter.