Headlines from August 19, 2013

The NSA has violated privacy rules or overstepped its authority thousands of times every year since 2008, when its powers were broadened.
During the Depression there were probably hundreds of thousands of them. A report from the National Hobo Convention.
Next weekend in Asbury Park, a movie theater will screen classic noir and discuss its influence on Springsteen. #movies
White Americans believe college admissions should be based on testing—until they learn other groups tested better.
See also: When admissions processes are digitized, general and racial discrimination is exposed.
Inside the scandal surrounding a Twitter comedian accused of stealing other comedians’ jokes.
Before 3D printing can revolutionize medicine, first we must learn to create the basics—e.g., cartilage.
Related: The Art of 3D Print Failure: “When 3D prints go wrong.” #photos
Human breast milk contains 19 milligrams of free glutamic acid per 100 grams. We’re programmed to crave umami from the womb. #longreads
Tumblr of the Day: Hot-Dog Legs.
Surowiecki: Why lobster is so expensive—because it can be, and it makes everything else look affordable.
Irresistible watercolors of mouthy cowboys, automobile wrecks, boxing matches, and rock bands. #tmn
The standoff between workers and management…underscores an intensifying battle over hiring and firing practices in Japan.
Shriver: “Readers at my events for Big Brother have objected that most authors exclude fat characters from the cast altogether.”
[PTSD] is not a barrier to being redeployed. Not when the Army needs its most experienced soldiers to wrap up the war.
The FCC’s Mignon Clyburn on how cheaper prison phone calls will strengthen families and help legal representation.
From 1975, Warren Buffett makes the case against playing the market in a letter about investing pension accounts.
Why we think we’re safer from threats than the average person, even when that’s statistically impossible.
Profiles of the bloggers who are turning their descents into Alzheimer’s into permanent memories.
They engaged in a furious round of letter writing, via Facebook. Some 35 years after a Hamptons love affair, a couple re-meets, weds.
Tycoon plans to turn the site of a World War II concentration camp in Belgrade into the biggest shopping mall in the Balkans.
Forever 21 demotes all non-managerial full-time employees to part-time to evade Obamacare requirements.
Glen Greenwald: “Even the Mafia had ethical rules against targeting the family members of people they felt threatened by.”
Supercut of Harrison Ford angrily pointing at things. #video
Combining embroidery, quilting, and trapplique into “Quiltimation”: an animated textile.
An interactive tour of New York visualizes how the city has changed after 12 years of Bloomberg.
Twin Shadow covers 10cc’s “I’m Not in Love.” #video
Self-reinvention was one of punk’s great rites, its voodoo homage to Thatcherism, and no one worked harder at it than [Strummer].
His work never pandered; it astonished. Poet John Hollander dies at 83. #obit
Japanese Tetris champion breaks world record by zapping 40 lines in 20 seconds. #video