Headlines - The Morning News

Published from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, our headlines contain links to the most pressing, interesting, or odd stories and sites we find around the web.

Got a site or article we should see?

Looking for a link you saw here last year?

» Advertise on TMN via the Deck

XML Syndicated Feed

Headlines for Friday, August 10, 2007

Afternoon Edition

Factory Records founder Tony Wilson dies, age 57. (obit)

Sensors reach trapped Utah miners to find oxygen but no carbon dioxide—a bad sign.

South African president sacks deputy minister of health, major voice against AIDS denial.

Lance Armstrong’s cycling team disbands over the fact that everyone and their uncle is doping.

“All I can say is keep those contributions coming, and you’ll have the president you want.” Kucinich leaves the Democratic gay rights debate happy.

Cindy Sheehan announces House run against Pelosi.

TSA proposes new airline screening plan, with passenger data to be stored from seven days to 99 years.

Hearts will be broken if it turns out heartburn pills cause heart attacks.

Forget tea, even whiskey: India is all about the wine.

Southern Baptist Convention raises one perfectly plucked eyebrow at seminary’s plan to offer homemaking degrees.

(The set of) Rome is burning.

In today’s feature, Nicole Pasulka learns to tattoo—photographic evidence is included.

The BBC ventures into user-generated content, and the result is a cat lady’s fever dream. (There’s more.)

And the objection to super-luxury outdoor concert-going would be?

The Nancy comics that never were.

Morning Edition

Southeast U.S. scorched by heat wave; U.K. scientists predict record high temperatures for the rest of your life.

Slaying of Oakland editor galvanizes African-American elite who turned “black power” into electoral reality.

Hints that China could use “the nuclear option”—liquidating its U.S. Treasury bonds—if D.C. forces a yuan revaluation.

Flickr photo clusters after the Brooklyn tornado; New York’s woeful metro information systems deficient once more.

New York tourist acting like she’s never been hit by a cab before.

Comparing the “Duchenne smile,” which is genuine, to the “Pan American smile,” which is worn by flight attendants.

Unsmiling Frans de Wall responds to Ian Parker’s Bonobos piece in the New Yorker (found here).

Elizabeth Kolbert raises bees, defends them against bears, to learn about colony-collapse disorder (aka, “where have all the bees gone?” disease).

Overview of contemporary Jewish pulp fiction.

Why we love Brits: Heathcliff and Cathy’s doomed romance picked greatest love story.

Today’s long read: Literature and nostalgia, from Proust to big glorious books for girls. See also: a blog for those who love Sebald.

Slideshow of contemporary pre-fab architecture slowly taking over America.

Video: President Bush sees new threat approaching U.S. very very slowly.

Extremely stupid, dangerous experiments you should never try at home.

Last day to apply for the TMN design position! And hey, sign up for the Headlines Pop Quiz before today’s questions go out!

TODAY’S FEATURE

Test Post

Rather than shopping or a pottery workshop, blogging shows promise as a fun, “couple-y” activity. THE GOLEM writes the entry that took a thousand years.

TMN TALKS

Abhay Khosla

Abhay Khosla is a regular contributor to The Savage Critics, a review of comic books. He’s made a foray into writing comics, and his absurdist,...

OUR MAN IN BOSTON

Question, Questions, Questions?

Padgett Powell's bebop solo of a book is 164 pages of interrogatory--that's right, questions.

INFINITE SUMMER

Dracula

Sponsored by TMN, the online book club reads the vampire novel that sired them all.
» READ ALONG

Sunday, November 8, 2009