9 June 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 09 Jun 2010 Berreby: Plans for Israel's Museum of Tolerance are failing because tolerance is a form of hypocrisy. Biblical beekeepers raised bees that produced eight times as much honey as their Syrian counterparts. As Latin America becomes cosmopolitan, it lets go of a literary staple: the dictator novel. At some med schools, psychology students use Piglet and Harry Potter as case studies. Shrunken head for sale. An amazing link profile of Israel "Brudda Iz" Kamakawiwo'ole, whose "Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" medley you already know. Cultural theorist Eva Illouz discusses emotions, the love-consumerism link, and the sociology of choice. By replacing footnotes with hyperlinks, the internet makes us smarter. Book owners have smarter children. As publishing means proliferate, the idea of writers being alone with their words is increasingly absurd. Jim Carrey requested 217 during the filming of Dumb and Dumber, but checked out--so the story goes--after only three hours. A trip to Stephen King's hotels. If you like to count Indians on TV, then right now you're doing a lot of counting. The story behind the prop newspaper that keeps finding its way onto film sets.
