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Headlines for Monday, August 4, 2008

Afternoon Edition

Obama leads McCain 2-to-1 among low-wage workers, but neither is convincing anybody that things will get better.

“Flat-earthers” thrive in online communities, say photos from space are fakes, Earth is horizontally infinite.

Discover the criminals in your community (search available here).

Print for the commute: Why do nations exist, and why do particular nations exist in particular forms?

Wall-E’s plant apocalypse as seen from a botanist’s point of view.

Also highly printable, “Through God’s Left Eye” in Cabinet.

Satirical maps of the first World War.

The exhaustive Times obit for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

He emptied the vials of his wrath over Americans who liked rock music. Hitchens on Solzhenitsyn.

Break up via answering machine, and other sly tricks now that you can skip straight to voicemail.

How to get the Madonna-Demi-Olsen face for $30,000.

Eighty-five works of art “improved” by modern gadgets.

Replica of Beijing’s Bird’s Nest in Legos; great stop-motion video; trailer for Ghost Town.

See also: Banana peels in London.

Morning Edition

Who the other side would pick for Veep.

Reporter hatches Obama-too-svelte story on Yahoo! message boards.

Op: The real reason newspapers are dying: They no longer dispense social currency.

Every phase of sleep is necessary—“unconscious rehearsal” aids memory, crucial cognition.

Video: Britain’s digital trails, seen from the skies.

Beijing is conducting a huge experiment by taking extreme measures to cut pollution—scientists are elated.

Bird’s Nest stadium creator slams China for using Olympics to strengthen domestic power, recognizes progress.

Clay Risen: It would be nice to see a concern for actual human beings return to the center of the architectural field of vision.

Badminton: Bit off opponent’s ear; disqualified. Jack Handy on his Olympic trials.

Jennifer Finney Boylan on what it means to test athletes’ genders.

Audio: Four American women discuss their experiences as soldiers deployed in Iraq.

An introduction to the murders and mythologies that started the black metal music scene, and that brought it to America.

Video: John Carpenter’s The Thing, reinterpreted by G.I. Joes.

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