Headlines from February 4, 2013
- It was a lovely photograph, but there is a sense of privacy in a moment like that, and they didn’t ask. #newtown
- Carrying weapons at home would be tantamount to letting weapons, not laws, rule. How the ancient Greeks viewed weapons.
- Hemingway probably never wrote the six-word story “for sale, baby shoes, never worn.” #literature
- British jails identify food distributor that supplied halal-labeled products containing pork DNA.
- Archeologists discover the skeleton of Richard III, killed in battle in 1485, beneath a Leicester parking lot. #history
- Ms. H, is this a porno? A teacher introduces her students to Macbeth.
- Children’s author and folklorist Diane Wolkstein, once New York City’s official storyteller, dies at 70.
- In Muck City, Fla., where nearly half the young men have felony convictions, football is more than religion—it’s salvation.
- With a cocktail of drugs, a 45-foot bus, and many willing clients, Jason Burke is determined to find the ultimate hangover cure.
- What to do when you find $175K worth of marijuana in your backyard.
- Longtime Bowie producer Tony Visconti on recording the new album, and how, despite Fripp, they kept it a secret. #music
- La Scala bans music critic for using “his articles not as moments of reflection but as weapons.”
- Photographer Thierry Cohen depicts the night skies over New York and other cities if they shut off the lights. #photos
- A writer recalls the vivid hallucinations as she struggled to contain her macular degeneration.
- Boasting the body of a man half his age, a 74-year-old doctor credits testosterone with saving his physique.
- The entire run of Omni magazine, from 1978 to 1995, is now available online.
- Since President Obama took office, the U.S. has executed more than 300 covert drone attacks in Pakistan; now the drones are coming home.
- Worth remembering: If Canada exploits its tar sands’ oil, and we do nothing, it will be game over for the climate. #opinions
- In New York, 65% support new gun-control legislation, the nation’s toughest.
- Study finds people who live in cities show diminished powers of general attention compared to people from remote areas.
- Big pictures of New York City’s Grand Central Terminal, the country’s most beautiful train station. #photography
- Clocks in Grand Central are deliberately one minute late, resulting in the fewest slips, trips, and falls of any station in the country.
- List of 100 facts about Grand Central includes news of a trapdoor in the information booth.
- Elizabeth Kiem’s audio guide to great music from Mali. #tmn
- New trend in Japan: Women paying for snaggleteeth.
- See also: Video shows how the procedure’s done at Tokyo’s Dental Salon Plaisir.
- Finally we know how pigeons fly home: solar navigation, an inbuilt compass, and an ability to hear infrasound.
- Dopamine, “the Kim Kardashian of neurotransmitters,” is not actually a pleasure chemical, no matter the media’s infatuation.
- Environmental regulations and thorny negotiations mean Europe won’t be fracked for at least 15 years.
- Series of trashy French espionage novels are so full of real spies’ secret accounts, they’re ahead of the news and sometimes even ahead of events themselves.
- Netflix strives to become the next HBO on the backs of Kevin Spacey and CEO Reed Hastings.
- NBC’s Deception believes casting a black detective, and being otherwise colorblind, is progressive; the opposite is true. #opinions