Headlines from August 13, 2013

As the globe warms, fossil beaches and coral reefs may hold clues as to how fast and by how much our sea levels will rise.
Western-style…“tasteless” foods will never catch on in Central Asia, but the opportunities for fusion and innovation are limitless.
At a beef industry conference last week, new concerns stir over growth hormones that affect cattle cognition.
A lot of people believed that what they saw was heaven. At near-death, the brain activity surges.
Tyler didn’t know it, but he was already…part of an intricate scheme to launder millions of dollars in drug money through the U.S. quarter horse racing industry. #longreads
Dyson’s new promo spot peels back the curtain on its lab to show robots building robots testing robots. #video
Listen to ambient tones created from Wikipedia’s recent changes feed. #audio
See also: Giles Turnbull uses software to transform the digital ephemera of web browsing into music. #tmn
Happy birthday to music-blogging luminary The Rambler, who marks the occasion by noting a decline in music blogging.
Sydney Festival to hire a German orchestra because it’s cheaper than an Australian one.
How dads kill time at a One Direction concert. #photos
To beat writer’s block, Dr. Seuss would open a closet filled with hats and don a new one.
Closeout sale on TMN and ToB T-shirts: women’s Rooster and Men’s “AEIOFU” models available.
Being Haitian, too, you have to know the culture. Haitian women are equal. Roxane Gay interviews her stay-at-home mom.
Ahead of Pax Prime at the end of the month, catch up on board game reviews at Max Temkin and Matthew Baldwin’s Playtest.
See also: Matthew Baldwin’s 2011 trip to the Seattle convention that’s grown into the epicenter of gaming culture. #tmn
Big pictures of war-torn Syria, now split into three regions. #photos
Federal judges throws out discrimination claims against Paula Deen, but the sexual harassment component of the suit remains.
Report: Redskins’ name only offensive if you think about what it means.
As the PED scandal threatens to destroy many players, it’s the best thing to happen to Pete Rose in 25 years.
Out of more than 5,000 patients diagnosed as depressed, nearly two-thirds did not meet the criteria for depression.
Participants in a study scored lower on IQ tests after being asked to relive rejection episode.
Profiles of men for whom contracting AIDS was a sought-after goal that once achieved, improved their lives. #longreads
From New York to Nintendo Power, the first issues of 19 magazines.
Peter Schjeldahl experiences the Warholian nature of the Andy Warhol grave webcam.
But don’t we all deal with what’s said vs. what’s unsaid? Ann Beattie on footnotes.
The problem with portraying geeky girls in cinema: “The identities seem to cancel out.”
Photographer Francois Brunelle finds two people, “totally unrelated,” who look like twins. #photos
New fad in which people share telephone numbers—sometimes even bank information and home addresses—surfaces in Japan.
In Aimee Bender’s “Americca,” a family receives relatively useless household gifts from a mysterious source.
“Histomap” from 1931 attempts to explain the entire history of the world in one color-coded chart.
Footage emerges of Jerry Lewis’s infamous The Day the Clown Cried, so repugnant that he vowed to lock it away forever. #video