Headlines from June 7, 2011

Why "parasitic business models" like Forever 21 and Facebook persist: They encourage us to repackage ourselves with satisfying frequency.
How to make your own iconic Eames lounge chair and ottoman.
Street pianos returning to New York, but with a new name and concept--and without the artist who introduced the idea.
Whether or not a four-year-old artist works alone, the sale of three paintings just paid for college.
Now that he is old, you root for him because he is old, and you won't have many more chances. In tennis, age is more than a number.
French Open sum-up: Players transcended nations--except for the U.S., who went nearly unrepped.
As North Korea's economy tanks, its platoon of government-run restaurant franchises spreads across the globe.
Mao's famous Little Red Book, which sparked a revolution, may have been ghostwritten.
Little Blue Book author surprised few have a sense of humor over branding Smurfs as anti-Semitic, racist.
Cases of children spotting and disproving pseudoscience and the adults who wish they'd stop.
Why researchers keep publishing "duh" science: to "influence perceptions and policy."
Not safe for lunch: a collection of microscope photos.
Bahrain's campaign to humiliate and torture Shiites meets American silence.
British intelligence claims success for Operation Cupcake, disrupting al Qaeda's PDF capabilities.
Ash falls like snow in Argentina, blown across the Andes from Chile's volcanoes.
Map shows every disaster declared emergency by FEMA since 1953.
Op: China and India will soon be Earth's biggest economies; the world cannot take that much consumption.
Yemeni president's severe injuries and burns likely to prevent him from returning to power.
Quiz: Match the president to his baby portrait.
Peter Diamond, Nobel winner whose Fed confirmation is being stalled, has something to say.
Audio: Dubstep Symphony.
Secret history of the Phantom Ray, Boeing's combat drone.
History of ultraviolence in films shows trend headed toward more violence.
Kiss-off notes from journalists to their bosses.
Faux-prah: "I Just Want to Say That I Hated Every Moment of That Piece-of-Shit Show."
Psychiatric tales done in comics: "Murderer's Eyes."
Bolaño's reading list for modern Spanish and other literature.
Q&A with Lorin Stein on rabbi jokes, religion in America, and if The Paris Review is WASPy.
Jokes prove wrong some theories about why we laugh.