Headlines from February 22, 2013
- Replacement ears are difficult to make—3D printing could perfect how they look.
- Scientists get closer to understanding how babies become bilingual before learning grammar. #language
- Why better prenatal testing does not mean more abortion.
- Imagine a giraffe on roller skates slowly rolling toward the edge of a cliff. How to interpret rejection letters.
- See also: A writer rejects a rejection letter. #tmn
- [The South is] succeeding because its economic model is more “Northern” than it appears. #opinions
- AP changes style rules to use “husband” or “wife” for legally married couples, regardless of sexual orientation.
- They got an A. “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” began as a film school assignment to create a YouTube hoax.
- Related: A professor teaches his students skepticism by instructing them to create hoaxes with the web as their laboratory. #tmn
- Artist exhibits 693 first-edition copies of the Beatles’ White Album. via
- The Beatles grant permission for their music to be used in a documentary about their longtime secretary.
- Joining the ranks of Psy and Jepsen, the “Harlem Shake” producer considers how to avoid becoming a one-hit wonder.
- Amazing: Singer performs the “Diva Dance” from The Fifth Element. #video
- Tracing a 2,000-year-old brick from its Washington state location to its Roman beginning.
- So you know: Before there was toilet paper, people used sponges on sticks and corncobs.
- Snows depart the Midwest for the Northeast, but also bring moisture to some drought-stricken areas.
- Medical bills are simply too high, enriching labs, Big Pharma, device makers, and hospital administrators, and screwing over everybody else. #longreads
- For foreign drug manufacturers, Japan’s aging population and manufacturing provide the world’s hottest market.
- Companies and bands like Green Day rent ad space on young Japanese women’s bare legs.
- Socio-economic systems and cultural stereotypes explained with two cows.
- In 1939, a conference of educators, manufacturers, and paint experts decided that school buses should be yellow.
- U.S. Army’s official swatch of desert tan— Federal Standard 595 Color No. 33446—is housed in Franconia, Va. #tmn
- Documentary about a West Bank village—the filming of which broke five cameras—shows non-violent resistance to be a brutal endeavor.
- Alaska’s Mount Marathon Race is only 3.5 miles long, but so dangerous that one runner went up and didn’t come down.
- For your weekend e-reading, four stories about how our assumptions and the world don’t always agree. #tmn
- In places that lock up more people, crime may initially decline, but within a few years the rate rebounds and is even higher than before.
- Forest Whitaker wrongly accused of shoplifting in a New York City deli.
- Once upon a time, spec scripts were gold in Hollywood; now, they’re slowly returning, with two plots recently sold about “Die Hard in the White House.”
- “Harlem Shake” is the first song from a largely unknown artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
- See also: “Harlem Shake” explained.
- Your morning dose of robotics: Two quadrocopters juggle an inverted pendulum. #video
- For your weekend entertainment: Willam from RuPaul’s Drag Race offers critiques of YouTube beauty tutorials. #video