25 July 2007: Morning

  • With limited results but many discussions of God, Bush and Maliki have been video conferencing.
  • Putin juices his rhetoric with U.K., accuses Brown and Co. of "colonial thinking" for desiring suspect in polonium poisoning.
  • Female protesters in Zimbabwe face arbitrary arrest, beatings, torture.
  • Former U.S. ambassador to Turkey posits: How to save Iraqi Kurdistan from itself.
  • Those were ignorant, unprofessional and rude officers. Judge acquits New Orleans cop, says it wasn't even a close call.
  • Steven Pinker argues for dangerous ideas, though he doesn't expect to find them in academia.
  • To compete with Potter: The Bible spoiler.
  • Op: Publishers pass on Jane Austen and J.K. Rowling because they get too many damn submissions.
  • Since Americans no longer read--or leave the office--publishers and authors seek them out at work.
  • TMN seeks a design intern to help us make cool stuff. Apply now, Roger Black-ites!
  • (TMN also wants the rest of you, on Facebook.)
  • Editing an encyclopedia in public is a matter of monkeys and dogs.
  • Meet the Bonobos: Peaceful and sexually liberated, or dismembering duiker-haters?
  • Study finds multiple stab wounds may be harmful to monkeys.
  • Comparing numbers--Michael Moore's and others'--in the quest to measure life expectancy.
  • Today's long read: Learning new things about lies by studying children with autism or Asperger's, who think your haircut is awful.
  • Tibet warming at twice the global average, affirming beliefs that high elevations have lots in common with the poles.
  • Environmentally-friendly web searching with Blackle; Steadicam on a Segway.
  • Aquatic caddis fly larvae with cases of gold and opal.