22 June 2009: Morning

  • Following Saturday's clashes, which left at least 10 dead, an "uneasy calm" settles over Tehran.
  • Iranians can draw on a rich culture of resistance to authority, going back to the country's first experiments with constitutional rule, a hundred years ago.
  • By limiting airstrikes in Afghanistan, says McChrystal, we can reduce the civilian deaths that would ultimately lose the war.
  • Sales of newsweeklies are slipping fast, yet the Economist manages to dominate, while Time and Newsweek battle for the basement.
  • You can think of the DX as the Hummer of Kindles. How we read a newspaper illuminates the shortcomings of Amazon's device.
  • Attention endurance readers: Infinite Summer began yesterday; you have until Friday to read the first 63 pages.
  • The results of cooking with Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies: linguine with mussels and herbs, fruit-on-the-bottom tapioca pudding.
  • New Vrindaban, W.Va., is America's only cow sanctuary; despite its troubled past, the Hare Krishna farm has survived for more than 40 years.
  • The hippie legacy is alive and well in New York City; it just doesn't have a signature stench.
  • Cavorting with giraffes in New Jersey and other oddities of one of America's storied pastimes: the drive-thru safari.
  • Hodgman roasts Obama at the Radio and TV Correspondents' Dinner, questions the president's geek credentials.
  • In Britain, kindness gets a bad rap from scientists, writers, snobs, cat lovers.
  • "Do you think you can hang on?" Pixar grants a 10-year-old girl's dying wish to see Up.