14 May 2010: Weekend By The Morning News — 14 May 2010 Feds line up sweeping probe into banks; Cuomo picks eight to probe about duping rating agencies. Britain to retire €500 notes from circulation, gangsters' favorite denomination. France's sex workers' union "adamantly opposed" to government plans to reopen brothels. New rule for politics: Don't trust old people! Especially when they wear ugly shirts! Fascinating account of how Marlboro reduced its logo to an abstract barcode on Ferrari's F1 cars--and Ferrari does not want to talk about it. Analysis of how a spitting cobra bobs and weaves in order to hit its target's eyes. TV Tropes: "A catalog of trade tricks for writing fiction", and perhaps the future of the humanities. Eighteen very brief theses on sustainability. Food spending in U.S. cities; five Detroit households can eat on one Austinite's food budget. Vegan ultramarathoner explains how he eats up to 8,000 calories a day with no meat. Tibetans evolved to carry unique genes associated--oddly--with low blood hemoglobin levels. Inside the world of those who speak invented languages, from Esperanto (hundreds of thousands) to Na'vi (one). Tour of a book cover's evolution through 90 different covers. Video: "Drunk History" with Abraham Lincoln (Will Ferrell), Fredrick Douglass (Don Cheadle), and Mary Todd Lincoln (Zooey Deschanel).
