Headlines from April 5, 2012

Boredom, uncomfortable seats, and adjusting to a surreal moral universe: the unusual challenges faced by drone pilots.
How to land a plane in an emergency: Look for a large green field.
Reasonably frank interview with Google co-founder Larry Page after one year of being CEO.
Wealthy Reddit members explain how they got that way.
TMN’s Nozlee Samadzadeh divulges how she’d spend her last $100.
Hyperrealist paintings of classic American cars. #tmn
Reminder: TMN’s Tumblr, The Editors’ Desk, is now a visual version of our headlines.
Harper Lee’s 100-year-old sister still practices law, puts herself to sleep at night by naming all the presidents.
Notes on using the 1940 census to find out who used to live in your house.
Gay doctor describes changes in the medical profession’s attitudes toward homosexuality.
From Iceland to India, fasting has a long history as potent political protest.
In China, a shred of sympathy for self-immolation exists, but not yet what the Dalai Lama envisions.
Beijing is Charles De Gaulle, Newark is Burkina Faso. Gary Shteyngart goes to China.
New poem by German Nobel laureate Günter Grass condemned for casting Israel as a threat to world peace.
Tiger is asking us to remain complicit in that grand lie of infallibility long after it’s been publicly obliterated.
Corey Feldman’s ultimate tragedy is that we can’t pity him: He’s got problems, but so do the rest of us. #opinions
Study finds wearing a doctor’s white coat improves focus; wearing a painter’s white coat, not so much.
Professional fingerboarder returns from injury to leap over flames. #video
Pensioner kills himself outside Athens parliament, reportedly leaving note blaming austerity measures.
Revenge-porn profiteer says he’s ready to get rich if an image he publishes causes someone to off themselves.
Romney’s views on Europe are a caricature having little to do with Europe.
Heilemann vets potential veep candidates for Mitt.
Scotland’s first minister ties hopes of winning independence to memories of Bannockburn, where a Scottish king annihilated an English army.
Over approximately 200 years of independence, Bolivia has lost about half its original territory. How Bolivia lost its hat.
Head of top French university found dead in Manhattan hotel under “suspicious” circumstances.
How to say goodbye to running.
Sam Anderson on our current world of stupid hyperaddictive video games. #longreads
Body Mass Index (BMI) most likely underestimating America’s rate of obesity.
Chart shows clothes with the same size label becoming steadily larger over time.
Life lesson: When your cat tries to warn you of impending disaster, don’t give him an enema.
New RadioLab episode investigates guts, with Mary Roach exploring a cow stomach. #audio
Hey, it’s not every day a witch admits her guilt!!! American history as reported by Perez Hilton.
Pictures of Los Angeles, 1860-1886. via