Headlines from March 6, 2013
- Health care, housing, and other reasons to be optimistic about the U.S. economy.
- Last year carbon emissions rose at their second highest rate since 1959, surpassing scientists’ worst-case scenarios.
- It smells of sulfur still today, this table that I am now standing in front of. Timeline of memorable Chávez moments.
- Chávez bequeaths a nation beset by crumbling infrastructure, unsustainable public spending, and underperforming industry.
- Castro and Les Misérables turned Chávez to socialism, long after the rest of the world had abandoned it.
- North Korea’s unofficial Instagram feed. via
- A family discovers their grandfather was selected by Ian Fleming for a specialized team of commandos during WWII.
- One was convinced that I’d finish in the top 10 in Sunday’s race. Training with elite African runners for five days.
- Study finds barefoot, minimalist running can lead to early bone loss.
- When basketball players are sidelined by ACL injures, all they can do is shoot—they often return better than ever.
- The secret world of fraternities. #photos
- So many of the core values of the magazine are also the core values of the country. Playboy launches Hebrew edition.
- According to a Pew study, whether liberal or conservative, Twitter opinion varies greatly from public opinion.
- A choking survivor tracks down Henry Heimlich, now 93 years old. #audio
- After Obama’s win, partisans said the market would tank; now that it’s way up, they’re searching for political interpretations.
- Hours after his book on immigration is published, Jeb Bush disagrees with its premise, following GOP party winds.
- Jon Stewart to direct movie about reporter jailed in Tehran, whose Daily Show appearance was used against him.
- Soviet solider presumed dead in Afghanistan found living under an assumed name in the western Afghan city of Herat.
- Next month the TSA will allow passengers to bring small knives in carry-on luggage. #travel
- You could tell a summit meeting mattered to Hugo Chávez when government workers touched up the city’s rubble.
- It begs a closer look at how we structure and finance childbirth in the United States. Caesearan deliveries rates by hospital vary from 7 to 70%.
- In San Francisco, 13.4% of residents are under 18—the smallest percentage of any U.S. city.
- Mashup of the moment: “Call Me Maybe” crossed with Nine Inch Nails.
- Last fall the “Call Me Maybe” engineer talked about how recording Nine Inch Nails influenced the feel of the pop mega-hit. via
- Carly Rae Jepsen withdraws from Boy Scouts concert, citing the organization’s gay ban.
- Misuse of “literally” drives the internet crazy—literally.
- Matt Groening’s illustrations for Apple’s 1989 brochure aimed at college students.
- I Say I Say I Say: Peter Sellers’s 1964 home movie. #video
- Effects diagram explains how to sound like Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine.