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Headlines for Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Afternoon Edition

We’ve linked it before, but now with some good notes: Everything you need to know about the Great Lakes (in the D.R.C.).

Spain gets its first glance at the first family’s daughters, and discovers they’re goths.

Op: The White House needs to go Nixon on Iran: cooperation and engagement, not reliance on the Russians.

Notes on William Safire’s hackery.

New word: “Vendrification: When fancy food trucks displace traditional street vendors.”

Video: Jay Leno, corporate shill.

3D printing is quickly becoming cheaper—even Jay Leno does it; Giles Turnbull meets the godfather of 3D printing.

Dvorak vs. Qwerty: the future of America’s keyboards.

Report on how scientists measure the invisible flow and structures of moving water.

Instapaper for the commute: What it takes to be art, and what it takes to be a Warhol.

Evidence “pretty conclusive” that spanking reduces your child’s IQ.

Investigation into the crises in American dentristy as explored by a Brit seeking a better smile.

The world’s 99 most popular emerging songs; map of the world’s connectedness.

1935 picture of future wars fought with robot soldiers.

Morning Edition

Health care faces a new hurdle, as Congress tries to figure out how to prevent taxpayer dollars from paying for abortions.

Polanski’s attorneys helped provoke his arrest by complaining [that] prosecutors had made no real effort to capture the filmmaker.

Video: How National Geographic photographers created a seamless image of a redwood tree from top to bottom.

A grandmother is appalled that people choose to talk to their iPhones rather than their babies.

Simplicity of language is not only reputable, but perhaps even sacred. “How to Write With Style,” by Kurt Vonnegut.

An unused William Safire speech, written in case Apollo 11 became stranded on the moon.

William Safire’s favorite New Yorker cartoon is a good one indeed.

Disgraced politicians who’ve made comebacks, kind of.

The close of summer brings an end to Jews for Jesus’s heyday.

Tell them they can call me He Who Doesn’t Put Up With Shit Like This. How many names hath God?

A new book about a “metrodox” Jew’s year in church could have gone further by not traveling all that far.

How celestial bodies are christened, and how a scientist named an asteroid after George Plimpton.

Lucy Vodden, who inspired “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” passes away.

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