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Headlines for Monday, June 29, 2009

Afternoon Edition

Scientists say current grant system “provides disincentives to funding really transformative research.”

New favorite blog: NCBI ROFL, collecting funny studies.

Everyone thinks Stuart is so sensitive. He is, but he’s also like any other Scottish man—he has a hard time saying what he feels.

Notes on how Wikipedia’s co-founder and the Times kept news of its kidnapped reporter off the web.

Notes on “marriage hunting” in Japan; speed-dating now offered during baseball games.

Italy’s Grillo: “Perhaps the purest example today of comedy crossing from political satire to political activism.”

The luxury hotel for everyone else. Study of the Four Seasons’ franchise business model.

Account of how one man organized a flashmob to moonwalk in London.

L.A. bookstores mourn regular customer, big reader Michael Jackson.

Headline: London blamed for Jackson’s death.

Graphic of Michael Jackson’s Billboard rankings compared to Usher, U2, the Beatles, others.

How Nonesuch Records’ anthropological approach to music lead it to becoming “the United Nations of rhythm and sound.”

Op: We as a culture reserve our right to shower disdain on the Black Eyed Peas.

Man desires a toaster. Man desires to build a toaster. Man builds toaster.

Based on some of the late work, art critics speculate Picasso may have had hippie tendencies.

Morning Edition

As the Iranian government toughens its stance and consolidates power, Mousavi can concede—or continue to fight, and face prison.

This year, summer camps guard against swine flu—bleaching doorknobs, sending sick kids home.

Street art and summer camp meet in rural Illinois, where campers learn how to choose tagnames and paint skateboards.

By the time of “Beat It” in the early ’80s, Mr. Jackson had added an element of the supra-normal to his appearance. An assessment of Michael Jackson’s style history.

Musician Manu Dibango’s “Ma-mako, ma-ma-ssa, mako-makossa” refrain from 1972 remains uncredited.

According to this January report, Jackson planned to will the Beatles song catalog to McCartney, whom he outbid for the rights in 1985.

Huxley, C.S. Lewis, and others whose passings were eclipsed by nearby deaths.

Photos of large-scale animal autopsies.

Video: Richard Hawley and Jarvis Cocker perform a duet, then Cocker gets an MRI to see the effect of collaboration.

Good news: the human mind is still more powerful and nimble than any computer.

More good news: Our current recession is nowhere near as severe as the Great Depression.

Photos of homeowners who haven’t changed their décor in decades.

“The ringtone of choice among hip literary types this summer”: a short dance mix featuring Philip Roth doing some “Jewish shouting.”

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