Headlines from July 3, 2012

Emails show Paterno played a key role in Sandusky’s never being reported to authorities.
The Euro Cup proves you don’t need good politics to host a global sporting event—no one cares.
Washington DC’s Vietnamese restaurants rely on Hispanic cooks for survival.
Total biomass of all the world’s livestock is almost exactly twice that of humanity itself. via
Wells Tower spends a week with porn star James Deen. #longreads
If you want to drink with the Chinese, you have to suffer baijiu—or learn to like it.
French minister cuts costs by removing champagne from official menus.
French law makes it compulsory for all drivers to carry a breathalyzer kit in their vehicles.
Pictures of Paris (1950-72) shot from a single-engine army plane. #tmn
In case you missed it—excerpt of Paris, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down.
John Adams told his wife that the second of July would be a day forever “solemnized with Pomp and Parade.”
Poems to celebrate Independence Day.
The “hora” isn’t a Jewish wedding dance, it’s a Romanian royalty rite.
Neil Harbisson, colorblind, uses a prosthesis to turn color into sound.
Tuesday afternoon poem: “There Is No Word” by Tony Hoagland.
In years of shopping at Uniqlos, I never once found them to be out of a size or color in a garment. It’s consistent. It’s relentless. It’s kind of like Djokovic.
The U.S. economy is pointing downward judging by office furniture and industrial chemicals.
Assad regrets downing Turkish jet.
The longer the euro area’s debt crisis drags on, the more it resembles a medieval rack of economic torture.
Garbage scavengers of Athens now seen as harbingers of Greece’s economic collapse.
Surprisingly detailed inside scoop on Chief Roberts changing his mind.
Destructive glamour seems to me to perfectly capture our ambivalent moment. Sarah Churchwell on the appeal of Gatsby in 2012.
Inside baseball on how the film industry makes money.
Scenes from Dr. Strangelove rendered in kitchen items. #tmn
LA’s top five actors-turned-rappers, including Warren Beatty.
Chart to help you determine if you happen to live in a city.
Many words on the (ill-suited) role of libertarianism in the workplace.
How to know when it’s socially acceptable to date another creature. #tmn
Saga of a four-month online dating experiment, complete with 10 dummy accounts.
The only time we are really free are when the missiles are in the sky. Academic appreciation of Spies Like Us.
Conceptual artists fashion bots to create Amazon e-books from YouTube comments—e.g., Janetlw Bauie’s Alot Was Been Hard.