Headlines from January 29, 2013
- Since the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, 1,318 people killed by gun violence.
- Israel admits it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent.
- Union membership is at a 97-year low in the United States: 11.3 percent.
- Rapper Rick Ross, whose act is pretending to be a gangster, sued by real gangster Rick Ross who’d like his name back.
- Learning from New Guineans on how to become “constructively paranoid” about showers, stepladders, and staircases.
- Like colleges, airports see customers as powerless transients. Ten things that learned from what airports are doing wrong.
- Hepola: If the bottom is the engine of a body, then Dallas is full of Ferraris.
- Bad jokes loved by children—e.g., why are chickens growing out of my head? Because you ate too much chicken.
- Tips on surviving the baby that wants to break up your modern, loving relationship.
- Climbing couple’s diary and photographs from a recent summit of Fitz Roy in Patagonia.
- Despite its military success, France’s go-it-alone approach in Mali spells grim news for Europe’s future. #opinions
- City of Dijon sells off half its prized municipal wine cellar to help fund local social spending.
- Uproar in France after Sarkozy’s son gets law professor job at top Paris university before finishing his own law studies.
- France bans term “hashtag” in favor of mot-diese, which means “hashtag-word.”
- British ministers consider negative advertising campaign in Bulgaria and Romania to persuade potential immigrants to stay away.
- Britain’s leaky buildings are responsible for 40% of the country’s greenhouse-gas emissions.
- Man rides entire LA Metro in a single day.
- List of painters to watch this year reflects “this current moment in painting.”
- Metallica calculates it will make more money from streaming than CD sales when Spotify reaches 20 million subscribers.
- It becomes every day less possible to fool any of the people any of the time. Thomas Pynchon in 1984 on whether it’s OK to be a Luddite.
- Music critic Alex Ross briefly name-checks lesser-known classical quartets to watch.
- Photographs from behind the scenes of the Vienna’s Museum of Natural History.
- “European Spider of the Year 2012” goes to Meta menardi, large cave spider. via
- See also: X-rays of art from the collections of the Getty Museum and San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum. #photography #tmn