Headlines from June 7, 2012

Quick summary of 50 years in Caribbean politics’ “centrifugal” power shifts.
The working class votes red not because of misinformation, but because of the right’s strong vision. #opinions
Women in northern Iraq commit suicide to avoid arranged marriages with their cousins.
Design school is the new hotness in business education.
Exactly how it sounds: tarp surfing. #video
Bill Murray on life with his boys and why actors and artists should say no more than yes.
Long piece (with incredible comments) on sex abuse at New York prep school Horace Mann. #longreads
To move on after violence, basketball fandom can provide a way. #tmn
Historical survey of the effective book-selling tactic: banning.
Was prosecuting Charles Taylor worth the price? Interesting call for trickle-down justice.
World’s tiniest car chase filmed without any CGI trickery. #video
Improv Everywhere creates a 100-strong car alarm symphony.
Remains of Shakespeare’s Curtain Theater, where Henry V premiered, unearthed in London.
Call for music appreciation apps.
Beautiful postmodern installation LUFTSCHLOSS by Anna Borgman and Candy Lenk.
Photographs of Japan taken from waves just off the coastlines. #tmn
Archival footage of the Golden Gate Bridge’s construction. #video
Nasdaq pledges $40 million to settle broker disputes in Facebook IPO.
Once you invest in Ponzify, you’ll have a difficult time investing your money anywhere else ever again. Silicon Valley’s next hot tech IPO. via
Imagining life after a “total hack,” where everything you’ve clicked can be seen by everyone else.
Chinese students stress over gao kao, notoriously difficult college entrance exams that can last three days.
We really believed we would have flying cars and colonies on Mars by now. How did we get the future so wrong? #longreads
The latest from Ray Bradbury, who died on Tuesday, in this week’s New Yorker: “Take Me Home.”
You can imagine how exciting it was to do a book about book burning in the very presence of the hundreds of my beloveds on the shelves.
The brutality and risks of opening a living person’s body have long been apparent. Two hundred years of surgery. via
Because it’s sold in a convenience store, 7-11’s Big Gulp calorie bomb escapes Bloomberg’s big soda ban.
Brazil lifts restriction on alcohol sales at soccer matches during the 2014 World Cup.
Warning issued to players ahead of Euro 2012: Leaving the field due to racist incidents is an infraction.
Justin Timberlake talks immortality, Botox, and his non-existent quarter-life crisis.
With Andy Samberg’s departure from SNL, a look back at the best Digital Shorts.
In case you missed Tuesday’s transit of Venus, a gallery of stunning images. #photos