Headlines from September 25, 2012

Sea levels are rising at an average of 3mm a year—though some areas are as fast as 12mm. #map
Global warming is turning southern England into a premier winemaking region. #wine
Resist any wine with a pull-tab or a cork shaped like Boba Fett’s mask. Todd Levin explains how to select a wine. #tmn
How a physician who swallowed a can tab inspired the redesign of our aluminium cans.
Researchers confirm that intellectual variety keeps the brain nimble.
With the U.S. high school class of 2012, SAT scores drop to their lowest levels.
Trees were imported from Belgium to make it harder for Americans to cut corners. Greenskeepers reveal trade secrets. #golf
Q&A with the man who’s reweighting polls to show Romney crushing Obama.
Study of Korean genealogy records finds eunuchs lived up to 19 years longer than uncastrated men.
That’s like getting a morphine injection on a Sunday night. Tim Burton doesn’t love Downton Abbey. #movies
A pair of entrepreneurs look for ways to disrupt the mortician business. #death
Related: The “semi-spiritual” music that sets the mood at today’s funeral parlors. #tmn
Thirteen years after losing a truck’s worth of gear, Sonic Youth recovers two more of its guitars.
Rule one: don’t call your band Crispy Ambulance. Factory Records’ most underrated acts.
A father sends his son’s toy train into space. #video
Assad’s goal said to be restoration of “the old Syria” without any plan for reforms.
Russia’s new treason law resembles a child’s response to chores. #opinion
This verdict is so dumb and cruel that it removes any lingering illusions about Putin’s system. Jailhouse interview with Pussy Riot.
Conservative poets evaluated in case Romney wants for artful rhetoric.
Obama embraces Napoleon: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
With over half of Spain’s young people unemployed, dumpster diving becomes a public health concern.
Design history of smartphones’ Gorilla Glass—formerly unwanted super glass that could withstand frozen chickens.
Three times a day, a plane or a vehicle gets on an active airport runway by mistake.
Today is the day we revisit an old friend and dream: Free Cabin Porn. via
See also: Kevin Guilfoile’s story about his father and Roberto Clemente.
Constellations and galaxies created from ash. #photography #tmn
In all antiquity, only one woman successfully calculated a systematic rise to power during a time of peace: Hatshepsut, an Egyptian king.
The only American to design scarves for Hermés is a postman-artist in Waco, Texas, with a tragic story.
Seventy percent of parents prefer real books to e-books when reading to children.
Photographs of Michael Paul Smith and Elgin Park, his nostalgic miniature town. via