Headlines from July 2, 2012

NFL fans prefer watching games at home; NFL responds by offering free wifi and special apps.
Celebrate the iPhone’s birthday by turning yours off. #opinions
Graphic explains how to operate a rotary telephone. via
We mostly ignore wallpaper these days, but it has a long history of social mobility.
Hysteria is not a necessary or inevitable condition of life; it’s something we’ve chosen, if only by our acquiescence to it.
Cartoon: How Groundhog Day may have birthed our universe.
Birds and wildlife in paper.
Astrophysicist DeGrasse Tyson shares the most astounding fact he knows about the Universe. #video
Anderson Cooper to Andrew Sullivan: “The fact is, I’m gay.”
The German babywiege, or “baby box,” is making a comeback in Western Europe.
Functional machines specifically designed to be operated by mouth.
From writing camp to post-production, new hit songs cost about $1 million to make.
Long article on the value and anonymity of library music and library musicians.
The entire David Lowery debate in one Spotify playlist. via
For those who love dancer Nonstop, a collaboration with beatboxer Hikakin. #video
From 1927, a newsreel interview with Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes. #video
PRI regains power in Mexico with Pena Nieto appearing to win the weekend’s presidential election.
This time, everyone has more guns, more to lose. Afghans fear coup or civil war once America leaves. #longreads
Five African towns “that should be on every investor’s radar.”
Jon Ronson profiles the financial lives of six people, from a dishwasher to a billionaire.
Studies find living rich dehumanizes people—“less ethical, more selfish, more insular”.
If you move to Canada, you will be heavily taxed. Then we will pay for your doctor’s appointments. Canadian’s open letter to Tea Partiers fleeing Obama’s USA.
Democrats taunt Republicans during Congressional baseball game with “Justice Roberts” chant.
Alec Baldwin has a new radio show and podcast, “Here’s the Thing.”
The first celebrity stalker likely was a 14-year-old determined to meet Queen Victoria.
Lovely Christoph Niemann illustrated riff on Facebook’s “like” button.
New York’s High Line is the hipster movement rendered into park design. #opinions
How we use our fingers to count may shed insight into how our brains work.
Summary of Wimbledon’s first week, from Nadal’s surprise loss to the first golden set recorded in women’s tennis.
Grantland reporter’s voyage into “the death’s-head of Wimbledon.”
Man takes apart, rebuilds engine. #video