Headlines from January 23, 2013

NIH to permanently retire almost all of its 451 research chimpanzees.
Scientists say oxytocin—not blood relation or sex—is behind cooperation among chimp populations. #nature
Food detective find fake ingredients in grocery-store products. #video
We want the people around you to enjoy their meal. Restaurants are asking diners to stop photographing their food.
Premier chefs agree that to eliminate hunger, teach children to cook. #opinions
To help children learn, say researchers, toys must be fun and require other children to take part. #games
Related: Mike Deri Smith on KidZania, a corporate-sponsored theme park that puts children in charge. #tmn
Apply for TMN’s spring 2013 internship—the deadline is next Friday. #tmn
Starting with Folsom, Johnny Cash became a force in prison reform.
When Tibet loved China: images from the Cultural Revolution. #photos
His awareness of the suffering of others was always apparent. Sister of Van der Graaf Generator’s Nic Potter writes his obit.
A lifelong smoker, Pam Jennings was also addicted to gambling, particularly fruit machines and dog racing.
“Mothers of Catholics from Italy who like Durex” and other actual Facebook Graph searches.
Voting ends tonight for the 2013 Tournament of Books Zombie contenders. #therooster
Taliban says Prince Harry has “mental problems” for comparing his role in killing militants to playing video games.
Experiments that involve puppets suggest infants have an instinct to prefer good over evil.
The U.S. is only the 85th most diverse country in the world; Canada ranks first.
See also: Portraits of women astronauts.
Hugo Chávez still controls all public powers in Venezuela despite his daily deaths and resurrections.
Thomas Friedman tells incoming secretary of state John Kerry to break all the rules.
Open letter to the New York Times: “In the interest of raising our country’s foreign policy discourse, I beg you to put Friedman on leave.”
Escaped cloud of rotten-cabbage smells prompts worried phone calls in France and England.
Federal appeals court, citing lack of rigorous studies, says marijuana isn’t ready to be reclassified.
My husband thought the world was actually in black and white in the past until an embarrassingly late age. Online commenters confess to believing incorrect facts.
First e-book published by The Millions concerns our era’s obsession with terrible art.
Long profile of “superdealer” Larry Gagosian’s mastery and fall in the contemporary art market. #longreads
“People Are Awesome 2013”—compilation of amazing athletic feats and stunts. #video
See also: “Recovering My Religion”—REM’s hit reworked so all the minor keys are major. via
Serious research, mesmerizing surrealism, and the music of Yo La Tengo found in science films by Jean Painlevé.
Round-up of the best movies that “pry open your skull and punch you in the brain.” #tmn
Video treasury of fantastic catwalk dancing from Soul Train.