Headlines from September 20, 2011

FBI reports violent crime down for fourth year in a row, upending belief that more unemployment means more murder.
Middlebury College tortures incoming freshmen by having their admissions essays acted out by upperclassmen.
Cache of 1920s vocational school student records sends reporter into reverie.
How Whole Foods uses fresh flowers, ice, and Pantone 12-0752 bananas to prime consumers for shopping.
Seawater makes us party harder, citrus makes us clean up, and other examples on how smell rules our lives.
The dangers of a three-year-old asking a scientist why he showers.
Re-imagined constellations—e.g., Cassiopeia transformed into Handgun—could attract young people to science.
New genetic tree of the mollusk shows brains so handy they evolved four separate times.
Some mighty fine fake science.
All the illegal drugs in the world; the entire economy of Singapore. Things Apple is worth more than.
Porn studio prepares for 2012 by building underground bunker.
As Two and Half Men kills off Charlie Sheens, let’s remember Bonanza did it first.
Did the West make newspapers or did the newspaper make the West?
Founder of anonymous group of active-duty soldiers protesting DADT reveals self to be Air Force officer.
The West’s human rights compass is off bearing due to loss of moral authority, UN influence.
Five important stories to follow during UN Week: Somalia, good governance, Syria.
Indians go to great lengths to stand up to corruption—not paying someone to queue up for them is a start.
China and India will soon be able to copy complex biotech medicine on the cheap, angering big pharma.
China cancels popular TV talent show—perhaps due to Western-style voting system.
Unlike the grid layout, cul-de-sacs are dangerous and inefficient, and are only safer if you never leave. #realestate
If you took away the names of these Nazis…they were like your friends and neighbours
In three weeks, gamers deciphered an enzyme scientists spent decades on—and are named co-authors in paper. #videogames
Rumblings heard inside Indonesian volcano—history’s most deadly—that led to summer-less year of 1815.
What is your favorite memory? #video