3 June 2008: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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Will she concede? Won't she concede? Obama clinches! Hillary might consider veeping!
McEwan: Fascination with the day of judgment just might bring it about.
The Copenhagen Consensus delineates how to solve the world's 10 biggest problems.
On dark matter: "Nobody claims to understand why it is happening, or its implications for the future of the universe."
On seat cards: Mugabe and Ahmadinejad not invited to leaders' dinner at U.N. summit.
On reporting from China, where people just don't know how to transmit information.
Print for the commute: George Packer on the Iraq of the mind and the Iraq on the ground--in both cases, everyone's loss.
Suggestions for your end-of-campaign playlist.
There were the cover versions of rock hits retrofit with the Bo Diddley beat. Remembering Bo Diddley in song.
Wired wiki on how to promote your band using MySpace.
Audio: Graduation season causes nightmares, explained scientifically.
A TMN classic, we dare say: Laptops designed by seven-year-olds (see also: the world's best subways).
The genius of Howard Deering Johnson, and 24 other people who changed food in America.
Couple spends 24 hours imitating Buddhists who are never more than 15 feet apart.
Meet the hot, young, fit and completely criminal Bonnie and Clyde of identity theft.
Video examples of favorite media hoaxes; videos of the violence emo fans face in Mexico.
Instructions from a winner on how to triumph in the New Yorker caption contest.
You,
too, can wear painful shoes, and other books you will not be
reading this summer.
