Headlines from March 7, 2013
- Nora Ephron’s son on her last days, final work, and feeling guilty about crying in the hospital when Hitchens had not. #longreads
- The death of Hugo Chávez as told by front pages from Latin American newspapers.
- Final moments of the Chebarkul meteor reconstructed in order to pin down its origin and how it got to Earth.
- Nearly half of all Native American women have been raped, beaten, or stalked by an intimate partner.
- Scientists go data-mining on the internet to find unreported side effects of prescription drugs.
- If a modified strain of H5N1 virus escaped from research labs, it could cause an outbreak with 1 billion casualties.
- Recruiters are skeptical that 13 million LinkedIn members are really skilled at “management.”
- Neurologist and cartoonists explain how the funny happens and where jokes begin.
- Reporter moves in with Jimmy Kimmel in order to write a profile, get stoned, and study his extreme attention to detail.
- Our Tournament of Books, presented by NOOK® by Barnes & Noble, swings into daily action today. #tob13
- New study finds ways that an adult brain could become more adolescent, ergo more nimble, whether for therapy or cognitive enhancement.
- Pitchaya Sudbanthad on the political, culinary, and TV-watching preferences of northern and southern Thailand. #tmn
- Milton Glaser toasts his logo design for Brooklyn Brewery, celebrating its 25th anniversary.
- Volvo announces cyclist detection facility which will stop the car if a biker suddenly swerves into the way.
- See also: How not to kill a cyclist. #tmn
- Privacy will mean nothing when everyone’s wearing Google glasses; also, the benefits will accrue to Google, not the wearer. #opinions
- Berlusconi convicted over wiretap, meanwhile appealing another conviction and facing two additional verdicts.
- Logic says the CIA didn’t give Chávez cancer; its history of assassination ploys suggests it would have used a poisonous wetsuit.
- North Korea threatens pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States and South Korea.
- For Israelis, Biblical and Hitchcock references are irresistible when locusts arrive from Egypt three weeks before Passover.
- Animals capturing prey in slow motion. #video
- Algorithm results in store selling T-shirt labeled “Keep Calm and Rape a Lot,” and the store claims it had no idea.
- Rape, March Madness, basketball in the state of Kentucky, and a story of one woman’s varied experiences with victory. #tmn
- Indiana and Kentucky have unwittingly created one of the world’s best natural experiments for testing two methods of procuring infrastructure.
- Architectural critic offers advice to LA’s next mayor on which glaring embarrassments to fix first.
- Arabic video games attempt to break stereotypes, provide venue for free speech in countries with heavy censorship.
- Thirty native speakers of various Sinitic languages offer Chinese words that may be the equivalent of English’s “nerd.”
- Good article on what it’s like to rely on lipreading, when even the best lip-readers can only decipher 30% of what’s being said.
- I used to read fanfic crosslegged, lap covered by my laptop, back slightly bowed but supported by cushions. Intellectual appreciation for fanfic.
- The Tournament of Books swings into daily action today, with YA taking on the National Book Awards. #tob13
- TMN’s Rosecrans Baldwin on Anne Carson’s sequel to Autobiography of Red.
- Oldie but goodie: For hardcore TMN heads, children’s music analyzed by Leslie Harpold, Sarah Hepola, Choire Sicha. #tmn
- Round-up of 38 amusing local news captions.