Headlines from July 28, 2011

Mubarak’s trial, for corruption and ordering the killing of protesters, to proceed next week in Cairo.
Lessons from Iraq: If you have an hour to save the world, spend 55 minutes understanding the problem.
Chart: Top 12 African countries by GDP.
Comparing Big Mac prices finds Chinese yuan now close to fair value against the dollar.
Indian officials gush over Pakistan’s chic new foreign minister; productive talks credited to youth and glamour.
Grand visions in Mongolia, where luxury retailers turn profits despite livestock outnumbering people 16 to 1. #shopping
Video: Tour of one man’s 2000-plus-pair collection of rare Nikes.
Among trends, “science is going back to the scale of life—that middle ground of minute energies and high complexities.”
Related: “In the Event That You Have Accidentally Swallowed the Higgs Boson.”
Mark Bittman’s guide to doing a Maine-style clambake.
Painter analyzes digital ruins—“Cyber-archeology”—of 1993’s video-game hit Doom.
Animator will make videos from your voicemails.
Ode by Maud Newton to Raymond Chandler’s furious essay-screed “Writers in Hollywood.”
Playlist made for various Haruki Murakami novels.
A silly drawing that still makes us laugh: Alan Moore vs. Demi Moore.
Video: Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman craves orange juice while playing bongos.
Actors describe their death scenes.
Human rights group says Syrian protestors are being disappeared at a rate of one every hour.
When the West outsources surrogacy to India, surrogates face personal loss, social ire.
Foreign Policy asks experts to look at history and decide: Is this the worst Congress ever?
Little, Brown stirs controversy, publicity by staying mum on Untitled by Anonymous.
Kickstarter, iPhone spawn “cargo cults”—imitators who never grasp the reasons the thing exists. via
Creem revival stalls, as the editor falls out with the publisher, who hasn’t secured rights to the title.
Wishful land-speed record breakers blame nearby potash mine for slushing the Bonneville Salt Flats.
Some claim racism fuels New York nightclubs’ dress code enforcement, but it’s actually B&Tism.
Scientists defend porn and its alleged ability to discourage violence.
Watching Marlon, Greg, Kevin, and other elephants at Namibia’s Etosha National Park.
MIT researchers develop furry seals, smart trashcans to prepare world for an ever-aging population.
A history of theories trying to decipher the reason for our freakishly big brains.