Headlines from July 20, 2011

“An unfortunate fluctuation between heat and cold”...has been “very fatal to fruits.” Climate change arguments from 1799. #globalwarming
Signs welcome all to a DC-area yard sale “except for LGBT people, illegal immigrants, and muslims.” via
How a series of dots and a memory stick spawned a game with all the markers of a holy war. via
Photos from inside China’s fake Apple Store.
Secret Service visits artist who commandeered Apple Store computers to take photos of squinting customers.
From 1913, surreptitious snaps of British suffragettes.
Asking someone to “be a voter,” rather than simply “vote” can increase turnout by at least 10%.
Armed with a suit of armor and a treadmill, researchers posit why the French lost at Agincourt.
We affirm life over the cults of death and human sacrifice. Hitchens rouses American atheists.
Neuropathologist who studies athletes’ brains shocked at the damage to an NFL star’s specimen. #health
A new book delves into Freud’s love of cocaine, which he used to “make bad days good and good days better.”
“If you drink this, you’ll stay young.” In New York’s Chinatown, rice wine bootlegging booms, as both beverage and elixir.
How Glenn Close’s dad stopped the Ebola virus in Zaire in the ‘70s. #history
A “huge factor” in Saudi Arabia’s discontent: a youth population bulge with 40% unemployment.
Part one from a 1975 Rolling Stone chronicle of Patty Hearst’s year as a fugitive. #longreads
Two years later, Afghans pay twice as much in bribes; Karzai, lacking power base, turns cheek.
Accessible survey of Eurozone economic solutions, with “haircuts” and “hoses.” #eurozonia
Ezra Klein on the Gang of Six debt plan: probably the best we’ll get.
The Go6 plan is nice but too late to pass before the August 2nd deadline.
Op: Obama glorifies radicalism through inaction, whereas Elizabeth Warren shows how to lead.
Conservative David Brooks’s categories of current Republicans: Beltway Bandits, Show Horses, Blowhards.
Nine influential diplomats who belong to Generation X.
Google’s 20 most expensive keywords; #20: “cord blood.”
Studies investigate why people know when foreign words imply rotundity or bitterness.
Tasting notes from the Queen of England’s wine buyer, who favors many supermarket bottles. #drinking
Many useful pieces of advice for home organization.
Enjoyable brain refresher: math proofs without words.
Ze Frank on his classic PSA to stay away from “brain crack.” #behindthescenes
Both sides are perfectly dreadful. Many songs and covers from the world’s worst albums.
Videos from the penalty-kick hall of fame/shame.
San Francisco museum guard tells lesbians holding hands to leave Gertrude Stein exhibit.
Shark jumps boat.