Headlines from September 28, 2012

Researchers find supporters of rival presidential candidates are able to empathize with each other.
I like to listen to right-wing podcasts and then call up the organizations that produce them to tell them about everything they got wrong.
Mike Love’s recent firing of his fellow Beach Boys is another in a long line of his exploits.
India had just over 500,000 civil engineers when it needed nearly 4m. Education is India’s biggest hurdle to competitiveness.
A painting purchased for $7 at a West Virginia flea market is believed to be a Renoir stolen from a museum in 1951.
Scientists develop electronics that can be absorbed into the body for medical uses.
Brutal hand-to-hand combat is no longer the norm. Rather than recruiting young males, the military needs those who are skilled and knowledgable. #opinions
Miranda Popkey covers the NFL ref situation: “Americans, as we so often do in times of crisis, took to the internet.” #football
In our latest Weekender, a selection of stories about football. #tmn
A look at 111 years of Sherlocks: Robert Downey Jr.‘s Holmes is more conventional than the androids and canines who’ve portrayed the great detective.
A history of the Beatles in comics.
Jamaica has earned its reputation for being the loudest island on the planet.
Watch 32 metronomes synchronize themselves. #video
Plane bound for Everest region crashes in Kathmandu, killing all 19 onboard.
In 2012, more soldiers died from suicide than combat; on average, one dies each day.
Graph shows the political skew and likely turnout rates of various beer drinkers.
Round-up of pretty much everything you’ll want or need to know about White House recipes and gastronomy.
College bars are dying out due to pregaming and social media.
See also: Buyer’s guide to four different types of American colleges. #tmn
Once again, the Japanese public must be wondering whether politics only serves to inflict cruel jokes upon them.
Visit to one of the U.S.‘s Strategic Petroleum Reserve’s four sites—worth billions and guarded by heavy weapons.
#TotInWasher Round-up of Nancy Grace’s best tabloid hashtags.
Interview with a 26-year-old virgin.
I have never deprived myself of anything. French centenarian cyclist attempts to be the fastest cyclist of his age to cover 100 km.
One in seven crimes in New York City involves an Apple product getting stolen.
Eighty-two percent of five-year-olds in the UK use an internet-enabled device. via
Surprisingly uninspiring issue of the Times’s Inspiration Issue.
Is this literary boomlet an anomaly, a coincidence, or a harbinger? On the state of Indian fiction in America.