Headlines from February 11, 2013
- She was bitter, she was jealous, she was angry. Jillian Becker, friend of Sylvia Plath’s, remembers their last days together, 50 years ago.
- Like most teenagers [I] had no problem identifying with a young woman who had everything going for her. #writing
- Millenials report the highest stress levels of any age group, and their doctors are worried.
- Every two weeks I needed X amount. The new wave of students working their way through college.
- Illustrator documents the sartorial choices of his children and their friends. #fashion
- Getting to the bottom of the “stubbie” and “steinie” beer bottle styles. #drinking
- British Airways introduces a teabag for use at 35,000 feet—where water boils at a lower temperature. #travel
- As privacy paranoia grows, designers create anti-drone clothing and software-blocking glasses.
- History of pasta, which may have originated not from China, as popularly believed, but from the Middle East.
- The Believer introduces its new podcast, the Organist. #audio
- How you think NPR reporters look vs. how they actually look.
- Ira, get off the line, for the love of God. Related: The NPR Blooper Reel. #tmn
- Beck performs Bowie’s “Sound and Vision” with a 160-plus-piece orchestra. #video
- The latest from James Blake: “Retrograde.” #music
- One of the best books about ambivalence I’ve ever read. Everything But the Girl’s Tracey Thorn pens a memoir. #books
- With NASA no longer sending humans into space, would-be astronauts turn their hopes to the private sector. #space
- As the Bush email hack shows, breaking into a presidential account isn’t the only way to access executive-level info.
- It is startling how little [Bush] managed to move the rhetoric and worldview of his party. #longreads
- In Switzerland, where gun ownership is common, weapons are tightly regulated—and still capable of carnage.
- At firing ranges across the country, a growing number of women are learning to use firearms and honing their skills.
- I’ve been bitten so much I’m used to it. Some 100K Hong Kong residents live in “inadequate housing,” including cages.
- Some NYC landlords choose the homeless—and the city money that comes with housing them—over traditional tenants.
- For decades, officials have repeatedly blocked Iran from purchasing the materials to build nuclear weapons.
- For more than 100 years, a Florida school for wayward children was a den of abuse, neglect—even death.
- Britain’s Food Standards Agency says to expect more reports of horsemeat in frozen meals. #food
- One of Moscow’s most notorious high-speed drivers—who’s posted many of his hijinks on YouTube—is arrested. #video
- People think that we are rough, evil creatures. A look at Botswana’s heavy-metal bands. #music
- Related: Elizabeth Kiem’s listening guide to the Timbuktu music festival now in limbo. #tmn
- Starr Saphir, who led bird-watching tours through Central Park for nearly four decades, dies at 73.