Headlines from June 27, 2012

Iranians boycott milk and bread to protest prices of basic goods rising daily.
Odds of war with Iran now at 36%.
Legal strategy behind Assange’s cunning move into the Ecuadorian embassy to avoid extradition to the States.
Botanists still unsure of how exactly plants know which way is up and which way is down.
Human-powered helicopter takes flight. #video
Robot with high-speed hand, high-speed vision never loses to humans at rock, paper, scissors.
Tumblr for those who like geometry and pictures.
The code “451” could become a Bradbury-honoring internet error message highlighting censorship.
Helicopter “bombs” London with poems to kick off UK’s largest-ever poetry festival.
Long, thoughtful musing on what we see when we read.
Nora Ephron essay on inheriting her Uncle Hal’s money and writing When Harry Met Sally. #longreads
TMN’s Sarah Hepola begins new column to analyze the pageant of beauty found in Dallas.
TMN’s Matthew Baldwin speed-dating tonight in Seattle.
Unison: Shoes. In case you forgot: Sex and the City redone as a Beckett play.
Massive trove of material after food lab writer answers 233 questions about cooking.
We take lunch for granted; it wasn’t even a regular meal until 1850.
Civilian court strikes down military decree reimposing martial law in Egypt.
Article’s headline says it all: “Hillary Clinton’s Last Tour as a Rock-Star Diplomat.”
The world’s first and only cake museum, housed in LA, is likely to be destroyed.
Growing evidence that injecting toxic waste deep into the Earth isn’t a foolproof plan.
Long, fascinating multimedia look into America’s love of counterinsurgency.
Journalists fight Hezbollah in paintball.
Brazilian inmates can trim time off their sentences by reading literature.
Details of life inside the recruiting circles of America’s top pre-teen basketball talent.
Remembering New York culture from the 1980s—the Spalding Gray/Laurie Anderson Age.
Tales from the history of the Ritz Hotel in Paris by writer who first went there with Hemingway.
RIP, Nora Ephron.
Man walks a mile in another man’s (smaller) shoes. #video
Wednesday poem: “I Am Learning to Abandon the World.”