Headlines from October 28, 2011

China admits two tons of “gutter oil” are consumed in restaurants; real amount believed ten times larger.
Taibbi: Rick Perry is the best little whore In Texas. #longreads
Hitchens drops the hammer on those who encourage dying people to believe in God. #video
Advanced degrees increasingly helping firefighters get ahead.
Literary magazines shouldn’t charge a fee for submissions—they should charge a subscription.
Scientists use Google Translate-like tech to translate secret, 250-year-old cipher.
Photo request sparks correspondence between Eliot and Groucho Marx, and weird letters ensue.
Cargo container arrives emitting torrents of radiation. No one knows what to do next.
Examples of extraordinary pumpkins.
Scary story completed by TMNers.
Facebook builds data centers in town that’s “a morning’s drive” from the Arctic Circle.
New York show to see before it closes tomorrow: Karl Haendel and Petter Ringbom’s “Questions for My Father.” #art
Kate Grace Thomas on writing about Libya for Lonely Planet—during the revolution. #longreads
Freed Palestinian prisoners uneasily switch to their new lives as celebrities for Hamas.
Decades of aborting girls in India has caused emergence of “wife-sharing” between brothers.
North Korean media silent about Gadhafi’s fall, Arab Spring.
Notes from working inside Burning Man’s infrastructure.
Occupy Wall Street’s kitchen protests fixing food for derelicts.
Graeber does make one policy recommendation: a Biblical-style “jubilee.” Profile of Occupy’s anti-leader.
JaMarcus Russell, possibly the NFL’s greatest washout, defends himself against charges.
Charles Smith, antichrist of the wine world, knows how to throw a good party.
It was all quite fraught shooting the positions. How The Joy of Sex was illustrated.
Jonah Lehrer on why self-knowledge is surprisingly useless.
Van Halen demanded no brown M&Ms as a system of efficiency.
Interfaces of the future, designed by Microsoft. #video
Find out which number person you are to have lived since history began.
Journey of two gentlemen bicycling the length of Britain.