Headlines from August 2, 2011

British women determine Pippa Middleton’s “Royal Mocha” skin tone to be “most desirable” of all shades.
Fighting in Afghanistan, Ivory Coast, Chad, and Libya, France’s military feared to be stretched too thin.
North Korea eager to resume six-party talks, “without preconditions,” to end its nuclear program.
Moguls build minisubmarines to glimpse the Challenger Deep and other extremely deep ocean recesses.
Paragraphs on posterity, time travel, and time machines currently hidden on Earth.
Analysis of whether Marty McFly (Prime) was a destroyer of worlds.
Recipes from 1933’s Savoy Cocktail Book—“dedicated to you.”
You Lost Me There, one of NPR’s Best Books of 2010, by TMN’s Rosecrans Baldwin, available today in paperback.
How trailers went from bad ads to film industry staple.
Reading about the power of travel, how it’s supposed to make me a more authentic me, made me lonely. Jessa Crispin on when travel fails expectations.
Disturbing examples of food twitching—i.e., when salt replaces a dead creature’s brain.
America’s least healthy breakfast.
Come on, I want to hear you say it. Who is it? Yeah that’s right, I am. “Who’s Your Ear, Nose, and Throat Doctor?”
“Mom And Dad, I’m Gay And Also Stronger Than Both Of You, So Don’t Try Any Shit.” #spoofsandsatire
An overview of differing opinions on whether it’s time to rename “Ground Zero.”
Getting bin Laden: From a presidential candidate’s lips to a house in Abbottabad, how the operation unfolded. #longreads
Forty years after the only unsolved hijacking in U.S. history, new clues surface in the case of D.B. Cooper.
“Borrow buzzwords from other industries” and other book review clichés I’d like to see. #reading
There has never been a time when there has been no person in Cornwall without a knowledge of the Cornish language. Unraveling a tongue.
Laying to rest—again—the myth that slave families stayed together; they were often broken apart when members were sold.
Activist Tim DeChristopher to appeal two-year sentence for disrupting oil and gas lease auction.
The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it’s that I have greater respect for justice. DeChristopher’s closing statement.
Two men indicted for stealing cash from an ATM using a re-encoded Dunkin’ Donuts gift card. #technology
Todd Levin talks with the Indoor Kids about his TMN video game series, “Consoles I Have Known.”
Filmmakers finish the movie the Merry Pranksters started, piece together footage from a bus fueled by drugs and prose.
...when his facial muscles could still hold up an eyebrow and his neck retained some structural integrity. Alan Greenspan fanfic.