April 5, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Boredom, uncomfortable seats, and adjusting to a surreal moral universe: the unusual challenges faced by drone pilots.
- How to land a plane in an emergency: Look for a large green field.
- Reasonably frank interview with Google co-founder Larry Page after one year of being CEO.
- Wealthy Reddit members explain how they got that way.
- TMN's Nozlee Samadzadeh divulges how she'd spend her last $100.
- Hyperrealist paintings of classic American cars.
- Reminder: TMN's Tumblr, The Editors' Desk, is now a visual version of our headlines.
- Harper Lee's 100-year-old sister still practices law, puts herself to sleep at night by naming all the presidents.
- Notes on using the 1940 census to find out who used to live in your house.
- Gay doctor describes changes in the medical profession's attitudes toward homosexuality.
- From Iceland to India, fasting has a long history as potent political protest.
- In China, a shred of sympathy for self-immolation exists, but not yet what the Dalai Lama envisions.
- Gary Shteyngart goes to China.
- New poem by German Nobel laureate Günter Grass condemned for casting Israel as a threat to world peace.
- Tiger is asking us to remain complicit in that grand lie of infallibility long after it's been publicly obliterated.
- Corey Feldman's ultimate tragedy is that we can't pity him: He's got problems, but so do the rest of us.
- Study finds wearing a doctor's white coat improves focus; wearing a painter's white coat, not so much.
- Professional fingerboarder returns from injury to leap over flames.
