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Headlines for Friday, November 14, 2008

Weekend Edition

Notes on how Obama can maintain a productive relationship with the military.

If you didn’t hear, Putin wants to hang Georgia’s Saakashvili “by the balls.”

Lawrence Weschler on being the medium between Robert Irwin and David Hockney.

“When Alzheimer’s Hits at 40,” a look at early-onset sufferers.

It’s difficult to describe this link except to say: No one blogs like Errol Morris blogs.

For Saturday-morning reading: The philosopher who got himself a wolf.

“Who Stole My Volcano? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dematerialisation of Supervillain Architecture.”

Gallery of the finest doomsday devices.

How and why the Pentagon is getting into the flying-car business.

Photos from a train trip to Beijing via Moscow.

TMN Talks: with Radio Lab’s Jad Abumrad today at four p.m.

In this week’s This American Life, a great segment on Studs Terkel’s recorded interviews during the depression.

Morning Edition

Advisers are split over what to do with Obama’s network of supporters, who are now a proven grassroots army.

How to tell when your consumer confidence is shaken: when that fancy bean grinder doesn’t seem worth it.

The math on the Starbucks Gold Card: How many cups until you break even?

Send in your question for this afternoon’s TMN Talks with Jad Abrumrad, co-host of Radio Lab.

With black stereotypes inapplicable, white comics just don’t get how to poke fun at Obama.

Sustainable food and agriculture experts on what they’d say if they had five minutes with the president-elect.

Researchers turn tequila into diamonds.

The public may have misgivings about a silent and invisible weapon that would boil the body’s fluids before tearing it apart in a burst of vapor.

Upcoming book features musicians’ most-loved instruments, the stories behind them. (pdf here)

Not much has changed in the [fantasy] genre since the invention of Bilbo Baggins.

The house from A Christmas Story is open to tours—this month it’s host to the movie’s 25th anniversary celebration.

The Nirvana baby, now 17, recreates the Nevermind cover photo.

TODAY’S FEATURE

God Save the Queen From You Chumps

Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, Englishman JONATHAN BELL defends his nation against a cursing student of Anglo-Saxons.

TMN TALKS

Ryan Catbird

Back in the formative days of the mp3-blog world, Ryan Catbird was king with The Catbirdseat. Since then he’s started his own label (Catbird Records,...

OUR MAN IN BOSTON

Street Fighting Men

Sifting through a recent flurry of books about Sixties radicals and student demonstrators.

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