28 April 2009: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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Iceland pisses on its disgraced bankers.
White-collar workers in China are adopting English names to achieve Chinese-nationalist economic goals.
China undergoes educational upheaval with too many graduates, too much debt, too few jobs.
Op: The University must die so that academia can live.
Flus are unpredictable and they attack in waves; the race has begun to produce a vaccine in volume.
Video: Swine
Flu Public Service Announcements from 1976 (more info here).
Mexicans see the Apocalypse in economic crisis, swine flu, narco violence, and now earthquake.
Explaining why not every species has its own flu, though whales and seals do.
Study finds babies develop superior mental skills by learning two languages.
New Yorker's Frere-Jones gets in touch with his inner b-boy at a graffiti party, but doesn't dance.
Instapaper for the commute: Profile of Gay Talese and his marriage, massage parlors and all.
When Jeff Koons installs garden sculpture in Greenwich, all there is to talk about is his smile.
Your basic primer, with notes on recent research, on your marvelous bones.
Examples of technologies neuroscientists are developing to pass the blood-brain barrier.
Video: Post-it Note inventor watches Sticky Note Experiments.
