April 20, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- The real story of this year's presidential election in France is the "rock and roll" far left.
- Hollande, French Socialist candidate, uses "Ni**as in Paris” video to appeal to youth voters.
- Touré considers the mind of a woman who tells him she's racist.
- Investigation into the current thinking about "fluid" intelligence, and whether it can be changed.
- Incredible: Researchers will redo every 2008 study published in three psychology journals to test for bunk.
- Network science says big cities don't produce what's next in music.
- Why music may be both intuition and invention: "nature-harnessing"
- How a sociology theory and an anti-NRA campaign spawned the Huffington Post.
- Original $130 check that bought the rights to Superman sold at auction for $160,000.
- Interview with David Rees, sincerely dedicated to the art of sharpening.
- Dutch men destroy things at 2500 frames per second.
- Technology is changing the way we read and write—but that's no reason to freak out.
- Chemist collects smells—from sweat, pay phones, the homeless—to study for social implications.
- Company creates perfume with the ink, paper, foam, and "hint of glue" that is a MacBook's smell.
- Other Hispanic writers to love once you've finished the latest Bolaño.
- Part-by-part analysis of the corgi concludes it is not so great.