Headlines from February 1, 2013

Der Spiegel: Germany’s continued failure to return Nazi-looted property is “a moral disaster.”
Such subjects in school were pretty dull. After flubbing a Holocaust question on TV, Russian twins visit Auschwitz.
Author Teddy Wayne records a cover version of a song written by a character in his new novel. #tmn
There’s an absence of human feeling in these songs. National Review columnists discuss rap.
Nussbaum on 30 Rock, which started as a sitcom, but became “a surreal machine capable of commenting on anything.”
Deadline is midnight tonight to apply for our Spring 2013 internship. #tmn
I could have powered through one more week, my love for football battered but sound, were it not for the AFC Conference game. #tmn
A journalist wonders if media efforts to prevent military suicides could be having the opposite effect.
Between August 2010 and July 2011, 28 New Yorkers fell ill from eating fish infected with a “colorless, odorless, tasteless toxin.”
Simply Orange is anything but: The hyper-engineered orange juice includes 600-plus flavors manipulated by an algorithm.
Until the 18th century, wine was horrible, but people consumed it because, unlike milk and water, it was sterile.
Resist any wine bottled in a war-torn country or a completely fictional one. The Non-Expert’s guide to wine. #tmn
Fourteen-year-old student wounded in a shooting yesterday outside a middle school in Atlanta.
Fifteen-year-old honors student, shot and killed after school on Tuesday, previously starred in a video urging fellow students to avoid gangs.
Study: “Stand your ground” gun laws increase manslaughters and murders by eight percent.
Rolling Stone article investigates how the NRA “thwarts regulation and helps put military-grade weapons in the hands of killers.”
Vladimir Putin did not—repeat: did not—hire Boyz II Men to encourage more sex in Russia.
Thanks to oil, North Dakota is booming, and men on pay day can’t buy lemonade because they’ve only got hundreds in their wallets. #longreads
The pot smoker I want to be resembles the drinker I once was: occasional, responsible, social, after-hours.
Fashion professionals treated for diarrhea from eating too much kale.
From the archives, delightful stories of sickness and health for weekend e-reading. #tmn
Television creators now film with “binge-viewing” in mind, but new series are being cancelled because viewers wait too long to start shows.
Kevin Fanning: To insist performers shouldn’t lip-sync is to deny what we truly want from music. #tmn
Perhaps in a general sense we are all dependent on the thoughts and images of others. Oliver Sacks on memory.
Diary of the ups and downs of ‘80s Hollywood kings Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson.
Jess Walter: “Statistical Abstract for My Home of Spokane, Washington.”
Hackers, first of all, are good at joking because to hack is to rearrange form. Interview with anthropologist who lived with Bay Area hackers for three years.
Janitor spends seven years drawing incredibly intricate maze.