April 26, 2012: Morning
- China expected to eat more than twice as much meat as America this year.
- Food sources increasingly encourage carnivores—red foxes, coyotes—to trade natural habitats for urban areas.
- Testing of nuclear-capable missiles continues, and now it's Pakistan's turn.
- Atlantic story refuted: Facebook isn't making us lonely—and we're not all that lonely to begin with.
- Report we missed about the crisis in American walking—strolls are missing from the marketplace.
- Doodling in the workplace is now encouraged if only to keep people awake in meetings.
- Design proposals for California farmland aim to protect water supply and food systems.
- Eight things learned from reading every word in The Economist, April 21-27.
- Gathering of bibliographic information about modernist little magazines.
- Novellas, the original #longread, have returned, though publishers remain wary about the form.
- Trend piece about romantic friction caused by social networking features TMN's own Nozlee.
- Emails and texts aren't writing, they're talking with fingers.
- Should you want to turn your iPhone into a 1980s brickphone, all you need is a 3D printer.
- Evolution of the New Orleans Eris Krewe sees scaling problems similar to the Occupy's.
- Artist specializes in GIF collages.