26 May 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 26 May 2010 Obama sends 1200 troops to border-patrol; Cancun mayor arrested for trafficking. Doctor who spread autism-vaccine hokum discharged from General Medical Council for "dishonest," "misleading" research. Harvard professor spends 40% of his time chasing research grants. Central African lawyers prefer keeping anti-witch laws on the books for pragmatic, anti-lynching reasons. Towel Day and spacecraft tweets enlarge Douglas Adams's legacy. Why Twitter influence isn't a game of quantity; one of most influential users is a librarian with few followers. Study suggests intelligence can be improved by increasing your working memory. Some people find their calling in belt-sander racing--people who amount to little or nothing in the real world. Women's fashion used to understand how Americans are "slowly turning ourselves into Islamofascists." Burning mouth syndrome, smoking stool syndrome, and other curious disease names. Minute-by-disgusting-minute breakdown of how Cheetos are made. New smartphone app available to answer your philosophical crises. For this month's ORN, join TMN in rewriting the final espisode of LOST. The murderer is always the vaguely familiar character, and other lessons from Law and Order.
