Headlines from May 31, 2012

Let’s back up a moment to explain why a revolution was even needed: before 1960, the province was basically run by the Catholic Church.
Fugitive porn star wanted by Interpol for mailing a severed foot to Canadian political party headquarters.
Cold War fears spurred the creation of Google Translate.
Russian singer of viral “Trololo” song in coma after stroke.
The “Trololo” video that started it all back in the 1970s. #video
When politicians tweet, then delete, Politwoops archives their words for posterity.
Obama awards Dylan presidential Medal of Freedom #video
The Non-Expert’s “Your Best Bob Dylan Album Calculator.” #tmn #quiz
Most of them have only experienced the web as consumers. David Lowery (Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker) on how the internet screws creators.
After months of pestering from friends, family…I consulted my personal physician about whether it was time to switch to a strict, all-kale diet.
The recently decoded tomato has 7,000 more genes than a human.
Lower education levels correlate to more time wasted online.
Laura Miller begs to differ with researchers’ claim that math proves literary classics are useless.
Rosecrans Baldwin will read from Paris, I Love You… tonight in Miami.
TMN’s Graham T. Beck welcomes the death of cursive. #audio
Related: Beck’s “Tempest in an Inkpot.”
Palestinian prisoners end mass hunger strike; Israel conditionally agrees not to renew detentions without charge.
“Old people smell” found to exist.
Syria pleads with journalists to ignore recent massacre and wait for its own report to be issued.
Founder of Russia’s Facebook tosses $150 paper airplanes out his office window.
World flags given letter grades and aesthetic critiques; Turkmenistan receives D- for its inclusion of a rug.
State Department now conducts briefings in Spanish.
A yellow sign, in English, forbids photography. Analyzing the success of a chain of North Korean restaurants.
Ad featuring an office full of people singing while they chew rated the most offensive UK campaign of all time.
Richard Prince, defending his use of other artists’ work in his art, may be using the legal system as his newest form of expression.
Portraits of American Olympians.
Notes on the Johannesberg gallery and ANC’s agreement that the Zuma penis painting should disappear.
Survey, with slideshow, of controversial South African art.
(Very good) paintings done by Goethe, Hugo, other famous writers.
London gallery to install Richard Wilson’s bus on the edge of its roof, mimicking scene from The Italian Job. via #video
Favorite paintings selected from the latest Frieze and Nada art fairs.
Show to see in Indianapolis this weekend: “The Natural World.”
Ben & Jerry’s sends shelved flavors to actual graveyard in Waterbury, Vt.
Tips and terms for how to sound informed when talking about wine without coming across as an ass.