Headlines from October 1, 2012

Yemen’s president praises the accuracy of U.S. drone strikes.
The president of the United States is an awesome figure. Mondale’s prep partner remembers the ‘84 debates.
How to tame your brain’s emotions and make better decisions. #video #watchitlater
Was it just nostalgia pulling me, or is something of real value lost at 30,000ft? The mind suck of air travel.
Shteyngart to American: “Like the country whose name graces the hulls of your flying ships, you are exhausted and shorn of purpose.” #opinions
Related: Hugh Ryan travels by rail to escape the internet. #tmn
Statistically, if we wear helmets for cycling, maybe we should wear helmets when we climb ladders or get into a bath.
Guardian editor takes his son to an punk graphics exhibit, where they stumble upon a 35-year-old photo of him.
HIV has weakened immune systems across Africa, opening the door to a deadly Salmonella epidemic.
Responding to Justice Dept. pressure, states end segregation of the mentally disabled from the outside world.
Scientists predict global warming could shrink fish by up to 24%.
Cambodia wants its 10th-century statue back.
Andy Hinds speaks out on being caricatured as an example of “the end of men.”
An oral history of Cheers. #tv
The league was fighting a bigger fight…the war between capital and talent. #football
The allowance that Japanese wives give their salarymen husbands is at its lowest since 1979.
Iranian news agency republishes Onion story about rural whites liking Ahmadinejad over Obama.
The case against voting for Obama even if you think he’s better than Romney. #opinions
Political candidates now wage foreign policy; the next step will be sending drone surrogates abroad.
Battlestar Gallactica credited with properly portraying life on a big ship.
Australia, with just a third of a percent of Earth’s population, accounts for almost half its micronations.
To understand the world, one must first understand a place like Mississippi. Ole Miss celebrates 50 years of painfully achieved racial desegregation.
“Fanta face”—someone using skin-lightening products in Nigeria.
I’m 33, I live in Lagos, and when I’m not reading books, I write books for a living.
Senate majority whip takes online course in modern poetry. #audio
I was the personification of this vehicle. I could not shed that. Joe Isuzu was fired by first-class mail, and other stories of famous pitchmen.
Lovely examples of Grateful Dead fan art. via
Stingray photobomb.
Mass-player video games, with lots of buying and selling, hire economists to consult on markets.
Gender gap among economists extends to core professional beliefs.
Only a fool pays taxes that you don’t have to pay. Thoughts of the super-rich on taxes and presidents. #longreads