April 25, 2013: Afternoon
- Round-up of senators who sided with the NRA's lobbying against gun-control legislation approved by the vast majority of Americans.
- Czech Republic reaches out to support citizens of West, Texas—in particular those who require a new gym—following plant explosion.
- Analysis of how Phoenix became the only famous French rock band.
- See also: TMN editor travels the U.S. with a clipboard, visiting five places called Paris to measure American feelings for the French.
- Los Angeles reclaims honor of having the worst traffic in America.
- Fantastic article by poet Tony Hoagland proposes a new canon of 20 poems (with examples and explanations) to save poetry in America.
- Next month, Milton Berle’s joke files—multiple cabinets with thousands of jokes on 3x5 cards, indexed by subject—will be sold in LA.
- As you can see, William Gibson talks just like his prose. It’s fascinating.
- Recent photo album of our solar system as seen by our astronauts and mechanical emissaries.
- See also: Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield demonstrates the physics of tears in space.
- Second compilation debuts of synth and drum machine tracks mostly recorded in bedrooms all over the world between 1980-89.
- Assessment of new violent Midwestern fiction finds much capering after meth without much sense of motive.
- Doctors report having less familiarity with overweight and obese patients.
- TMN's Sarah Hepola: New Bush Library further tethers Dallas to America's good-old-boy tradition.
- Related: Paul Ford's tour of the George W. Bush Presidential Library.
- Itemization of what you could reasonably expect from life if you were born in North Korea.
- Terrific article from college student Park Ji Woo as she explains how she escaped from North Korea.