3 April 2009: Weekend By The Morning News — 03 Apr 2009 Gay marriage upheld by Iowa Supreme Court. U.S. unemployment rate jumps from 8.1 to 8.5 percent after the economy shed 663,000 jobs in March. Fear not: Hollywood stars are getting their salaries squeezed, too. Wrongtomorrow.com tracks talking heads making predictions about the future. Analysis of "the money illusion" and the neuroscience underpinning our understanding of inflation. "Girl Lessons," about mothers, daughters, and surgeons. Your Saturday morning read: Excerpt from Jessica Francis Kane's new novel, The Report. Can the Tournament of Books correctly predict the Pulitzer for fiction three years running? Analysis of signs of Alzheimer's in Iris Murdoch's and Agatha Christie's late novels. Fascinating profile of Røde and its microphones as a 21st-century urban manufacturing model. Video: Elaborate, drug-funded palaces (or "Narcotecture") being built in Afghanistan. Seven insane Soviet projects. New music to see in New York City this weekend. Back story of the rare Cobain-Love cover story in the April 1992 issue of Sassy. Photos from inside a Netflix shipping warehouse, where almost everything is done by hand.
