Headlines from April 26, 2012

Hague finds Charles Taylor guilty of aiding Sierra Leone war crimes.
Forty thousand Norwegians gather to sing children’s song despised by Norwegian killer.
Then-and-now photo feature by the LA Weekly looks at the LA riots 20 years later.
Clean Air Act credited for 10-year low in air pollution.
When religion is politics and the median age is 27, changes are coming for sex-obsessed Iran.
Pictures from a crane of emergencies in the Netherlands. #tmn
In case you were wondering what it’s like to have your home destroyed by a storm. #tmn
Ode to the Mercator, the first map to help people get where they wanted to go.
Reflexively calling women “crazy” is a habit young men need to learn to break. Tripe from XOJane refuted.
Werner Herzog reads from Cormac McCarthy, whom he adores. #audio
China gets a chance to help produce Avatar sequels.
How do you eat a whale? One bite at a time. Six filmmaking tips, which apply to other practices, from David Fincher.
James Murphy, formerly of LCD Soundsystem, lists 15 songs that saved his life.
Few, if any, ever believed that rebellion was a distressed leather jacket from J. Crew.
On the criminalization of bad mothers. #longreads
Unrelated: How to throw a shrimp boil.
China expected to eat more than twice as much meat as America this year.
Food sources increasingly encourage carnivores—red foxes, coyotes—to trade natural habitats for urban areas.
Testing of nuclear-capable missiles continues, and now it’s Pakistan’s turn.
Atlantic story refuted: Facebook isn’t making us lonely—and we’re not all that lonely to begin with.
Report we missed about the crisis in American walking—strolls are missing from the marketplace.
Doodling in the workplace is now encouraged if only to keep people awake in meetings.
Design proposals for California farmland aim to protect water supply and food systems.
Eight things learned from reading every word in The Economist, April 21-27.
Gathering of bibliographic information about modernist little magazines.
Novellas, the original #longread, have returned, though publishers remain wary about the form.
Trend piece about romantic friction caused by social networking features TMN’s own Nozlee.
Emails and texts aren’t writing, they’re talking with fingers. #opinions
Should you want to turn your iPhone into a 1980s brickphone, all you need is a 3D printer.
Evolution of the New Orleans Eris Krewe sees scaling problems similar to the Occupy’s.
I’m attracted to the same inane stuff that all the other 8-year-olds on the internet like. Artist specializes in GIF collages.