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Headlines from February 21, 2013
- Human Rights Watch report finds Mexican security forces participated in 250 disappearances under President Calderon.
- Google releases video to demonstrate life under its new product Glass—smartphone functionality embedded in a pair of eyeglasses. #video
- Tableau portraits of London’s bus stops. #photography #tmn
- Perhaps the only thing better than Girl Scout cookies: Girl Scout cookie cooking.
- Overview of current food television finds amateurism isn’t very interesting, unlike Emeril Lagasse.
- Sean Flynn of GQ profiles the Pope’s personal butler who amassed and leaked confidential documents out of love for his boss.
- No visitors, she said. Under no conditions. I don’t care who it is. What happens when Annie Dillard turns you into a writer. #tmn
- Gay Talese’s outline/map for “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” written on a shirt board.
- See also: “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.” #longreads
- RIP Kevin Ayers, founding member of pioneering psychedelic band The Soft Machine.
- Scientists urge people in the rich world to become “demitarians” —eating half as much meat as usual, but stopping short of quitting.
- Proposal for sartorial innovation: the Reading Jacket, meaning a sport coat, but with a game pocket to store books.
- History of the phrase, “It’s X’s world, we just live in it.”
- “Banksy Mural Chiseled Off London Wall, Reappears at U.S. Auction.”
- Gallery of street art by Swoon, who compares herself to a bug with twigs on its back. #tmn
- Short film explores the “overview effect”—response to seeing Earth from space—through interviews with astronauts. #video
- Reporters in Syria see no end in sight, only “bloody stalemates” in Damascus and Aleppo.
- Pictures of DIY guns, vehicles, and explosives used by Syrian rebels. #photography
- Four grand ayatollahs issue fatwas against Iran’s first 3G provider, cautioning against risks posed to family life by video calls.
- When more than 800 police officers and a helicopter are deployed to evict a family in Berlin, people see a shortage of affordable housing.
- In case you missed it: The GQ excerpt from Paris, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down, by TMN’s Rosecrans Baldwin.
- Whale. Player. Baller. Deep Ocean. Big list of jargon used by sommeliers to identify customers, wines, and more. via
- Measuring a single-malt scotch’s prestige by its age is a marketing ploy, not a true judge of value—and many other notes from the distillery trade. #longreads
- Very funny fake menu created for Guy Fieri’s lambasted New York restaurant, including salad with a hose of ranch.
- I recognized, then, the mortality of foods. Pitchaya Sudbanthad on the most difficult Thai dessert you’ll never make: Ja Mongkut.
- Nine months of research produce remarkable report about life in Pakistan during America’s drone/terror campaign.
- Detective in Pistorius case himself faces seven charges of attempted murder.
- What 4,000-year-old DNA teaches us about evolution and paleofantasy: Fish out of water are forever.
- TMN’s Clay Risen on the path of contemporary Civil War research, including a movement to put the war in an international context.
- Tumblr of the day: Head Like an Orange, producing meditative nature GIFs.
- All the thieves need to do to launder the diamonds is to remove the inscriptions on the polished stones. How to launder $50 million in diamonds.