Headlines from May 30, 2012

Scientists observe killer bees evolve to be more gentle than defensive if they live on an island.
Bluefin tuna off California have trace radiation from Fukushima—but it’s not as scary as it sounds.
Reluctant suburbanite comes to terms with life outside the city line.
Hague gives Charles Taylor 50 years.
Nigerian-American journalist discovers her skin color is the story in southern Turkey.
White actors in Bollywood enjoy job security as villains.
Wish-of-a-lifetime group sends elderly African-American woman on a train journey that Jim Crow never allowed.
The average Congressperson speaks, on the House floor, at the level of a high-school sophomore.
Rosny was big on bioluminescence. Laura Miller on literature’s earliest alien lifeforms.
Pulp-novel covers transformed into three-dimensional tableaus. #tmn #photography
Primer on self-referential words and linguistic paradoxes.
This body of work focuses on the moment in which antitheses collide. Artists’ statements sans art.
Examples of Barthes’ diaries.
How a poorly executed 1850 murder changed the history of toxicology.
First self-immolations protesting Chinese rule occur in Lhasa.
Events worsen in Syria for both Assad and the opposition, and the UN is in a do-nothing bind.
Good Morning America headline: “Nicole Kidman Urinates On Zac Efron In The Paperboy.”
Kids with active friends more likely to be active themselves.
Thin trend story says Japanese investors, post-catastrophe and pre-potential collapse, are moving money overseas.
RIP, Doc Watson, dead at 89. #video
Following liver doctors’ example, lung doctors adopt transplant system they can’t game.
Art is often valuable precisely because it isn’t a sensible way to make money.
Mitt cinches nomination; GOP to spend $1 billion to win White House and Congress.
Romney campaign releases iPhone app, misspelling “A Better Amercia.”
Related: Tumblr for anyone who has downloaded the app and loves Amercia.
I love you, Mama, but I must be frank. Prison letter home from George Jackson, one of the Soledad Brothers.
Pictures from David Hockney’s Toronto iShow (iPad and iPhone pictures).
White walls beautified with elaborate illustrations of clutter and neighborhoods.
Your Wednesday meditation: Arthur Rubinstein playing Chopin. #video