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Headlines for Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Afternoon Edition

Playboy tests “read it for the articles” theory, launches work-safe website.

Digital analysis reveals that Michelangelo drew a brain stem inside a fresco of God.

Finally: It takes 3,481 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll pop.

It is only when you scored high on both, sweat and fear, that you would succumb to cowardice. Scientists slip snakes into MRI machines with humans.

Also: MRIs of fruits and vegetables.

Illustration of 20 years of Mac and Windows computer icons.

Theories why a Harvard-educated professor wants to teach at Glenn Beck’s new university—“what would appear to be a sham academic exercise.”

Also: Beck may be going blind, and the health care Nazis aren’t helping.

Early diagnosis of breast cancer can increase survival rates, but may have disastrous effects on those who were never sick at all.

Psychologist explains why we expect heroes to experience more hardship, less reward.

The best book recommendations come from humans, including our own Biblioracle, John Warner.

See also: Greetings From the Biblioracle and The Return of the Biblioracle.

Morning Edition

Clinton announces new sanctions against North Korea.

Better Business Bureau gives Hamas an A- rating and Starbucks an F.

Moscow’s drinking-and-diving deaths brushed aside by uproar around a flying donkey.

Op: Supreme Court nominees should be required to discuss the larger issues of constitutional philosophy.

U.S. activists seek funds to sail a ship to Gaza named The Audacity of Hope.

At last all is lost in scud and vapor. Melville on surfing.

Everything you need to know about riding trains in Albania.

See also: Ride a train, escape the internet: The Great American K-Hole.

London-based Times lost 90% of its readers since erecting a paywall, says London-based Guardian.

Comic explains why conspiracies are messy, human affairs; going to the moon was easier than creating a hoax.

Op: Follow strangers on Twitter for your betterment.

4chan users attack Gawker, following report about them harrassing an 11-year-old.

Spy’s roundtable of people who have seen Jerry Lewis’s lost Auschwitz movie, The Day the Clown Cried.

Some of course hold up amusingly. Woody Allen records his stories for a website.

Video: Thirty-five cinema classics graphically simplified and strung together.

History of the original filesharing network: the bookmobile.

Excerpts from a brief history of eccentric headache treatments.

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