Headlines from March 19, 2013
- Does it destroy a teenager’s life to take him off the path of being an adult rapist?
- No one under the age of 51 today was old enough to vote for Reagan. Excerpts from the RNC’s surprisingly frank election postmortem.
- International sanctions are leaving Iran’s hospitals without supplies—surgeons are resorting to “old drugs.”
- FBI says it knows who perpetrated a $500 million art heist in Boston 23 years ago.
- Earthquakes can turn water into gold in seconds, but that gold can only be mineable in thousands of years.
- As insurance and financial corporations brace for climate change, natural-disaster experts are in high demand.
- Related: Experts weigh in on how the world could end, and how we might be able to stop it. #tmn
- Scientists are—successfully—trying to revive an extinct species of native frog that gives birth through its mouth.
- As a result of its see-through yoga pants recall, Lululemon has lost almost $12 million.
- Our ears are able to turn the vibrations into a car alarm or a cat’s meow or, worse, the voice of Mariah Carey.
- Gamblers’ decisions have evolutionary and neurobiological factors, which could render treatment ineffective.
- Google Analytics data indicates authorities have blocked Al Jazeera websites in Ethiopia, exacerbating media censorship suspicions.
- You go to the federal courthouse in Phoenix to be sworn in. What it’s like to try and vote as a legal immigrant.
- Side Effects and Silver Linings Playbook are built on the same template, a move Hollywood has employed more than once.
- Related: A panel of critics addresses the cultural divide brought into focus by Silver Linings Playbook. #tmn
- I am a great many things that I do not appear to be. An excerpt from writing sensation Mary MacLane’s 1902 memoir.
- Few statistics exist for Syria’s uprising, but Assad’s army is estimated to be half its size, certain of the loyalty of only 50,000 soldiers.
- Blogger who helped bring the Steubenville rape case to national attention explains her investigative process.
- Rape is that unique crime in America where the news media lament the blighted futures of the rapists.
- In 2012, newspapers lost $16 in print ads for every $1 earned in digital ads.
- Cyprus banking crisis imagined as a role-playing game with dice.
- For those who like inside baseball, or want to be driven to drink: How legislation really gets made—or undone—nowadays in Washington. #longreads
- Indian society slowly accepting the notion of “ladies night” as beverage makers market alcoholic drinks to women.
- Candid portraits of American girlhood. #photography #tmn
- PBS special on the rise of webcomics includes profile of TMN favorite Exploding Dog. #video
- Infographic and strategies explain where to sit for an ideal dinner-party experience depending on the number of guests.
- Aleksandar Hemon discusses his instinct for complication, which improves his storytelling but hurts his book sales.
- Fighters who smile during pre-match photographs are more likely to lose their bouts.
- Quarterfinals begin today in the Tournament of Books. #tob13
- Maps show March Madness fandom tracked nationally based on Facebook “likes,” with confirmation for Duke’s shoulder chip.
- For your office pool: Nate Silver offers probability numbers on basketball brackets.
- Stupidity captured at 2500 frames-per-second. #video