Headlines from September 6, 2012

Depending on who he’s standing in front of, Romney continues to shift his abortion stance. #politics
Except for some minor exaggerations, the facts in Clinton’s DNC speech check out.
Transporting ashes in a plastic bag to a rubbish dump. How to commit blasphemy in Pakistan.
Federal appeals court rules cities cannot randomly seize and destroy the property of the homeless if left unattended.
Warhol Foundation to sell off remaining inventory and focus on building its grant programs.
Related: The diaries of Andy Warhol, terrorism czar. #tmn
CDC announces the current West Nile outbreak is the worst the U.S. has ever seen.
Researchers find a fifth of the human genome—once called “junk” DNA—regulates the manufacture of proteins. #science
If humans are like mice, sleep disruptions may be a predictor of Alzheimer’s.
Both guys agreed. Both guys were losing money. Neighboring Midtown pizza parlors end price war.
The “Strange Fruit” songwriter was a Bronx Jew involved in the Rosenberg espionage case. #music
Ernest Hemingway was not included on the original list. The results of a 1929 ranking of the best American novelists.
Ralph Waldo Emerson pitches the Snuggie on the Home Shopping Network. #spoofsandsatire
TMN’s Paul Ford interviewed by Aaron Lammer at Longform. #podcast
So much of the time it’s just like, I really don’t want to be here. The basketball game is on. The quotable Cat Power.
Russian president wears a beak while flying a motorized hang glider to rescue a flock of endangered cranes.
U.S. accused of torturing Gadhafi’s enemies before handing them over.
Fact checking lies and yarns (and Bill Clinton’s startling truth) at the Democrats’ convention.
Paul Ryan happy to seek Affordable Care Act funds when they improve a town in Wisconsin.
Fence-impaled man praises Obamacare.
Fifty-four pictures from the summer’s Paralympics. #photos
Africa looks set to create 54 million more stable jobs by 2020. Things you don’t know about Africa’s economy.
Neat chart combines national crime rates with populations’ thoughts on heaven and hell.
French education minister calls for reinstating moral education.
Scalability lacking in the business of sewing together $4,000 suits.
Big Wired package on “flash failures” and Wall Street’s love of high-speed trading.
Nine vital things learned after living in New York City for five years. #tmn
On “post-occupancy”—new trend in architecture where designers actually visit their buildings afterward.
Artist/architect attaches large black dots to empty buildings in Venice available for squatting.
The contemporary artist has become the aspirational paradigm of the new worker: creative, unconventional, flexible, nomadic, creating value, and endlessly travelling.
Writers with MFAs aren’t obligated to slave in academia—consider the creative agency.
Now available: paperback book that consists of found photos depicting broken Kindle screens.
Davy Rothbart asks people in Venice Beach about his (hilarious) new book, which none of them have read. #video
Doctor diagnoses a woman who needs to be held upside-down.
On memory and why you’re more likely to remember that someone’s a baker rather than Baker being their last name.