Headlines from April 26, 2013

With Tamerlan driving now, Danny in the passenger seat, and Dzhokhar behind Danny, they stopped in Watertown Center.
The origins of the #FreeJahar movement—when teen fandom turns conspiracy theorist.
Though Reddit’s Boston bombing “investigation” was an unmitigated disaster, the internet can be surprisingly effective at solving crimes.
Yet another massacre has occurred in the historically war-torn region of the Southern United States. If media covered America the way it covers foreign cultures.
The abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine, 27 years after Chernobyl. #photos
Europe’s economic crisis re-inspires a century-old tradition of “suspended coffee”—buying a stranger coffee with your order.
New research shows vervet monkeys can pick up on social cues, changing their eating habits in order to fit in.
An open letter to the Wikipedia editors who’ve decided to categorize American novelists as either “novelists” or “women novelists.”
Please notice how similar music is to mortgages. The real danger of copying music.
The practical joke kids everywhere are playing on their parents: sending them a text pretending to buy or sell drugs.
Physicians are good people… And yet all of us, behind closed doors, in the cafeteria, say, “Do you believe what we did to that patient?”
Resuscitation medicine practitioner says there’s evidence that consciousness continues in humans for a few hours after “death.”
Tig Notaro explains to Conan O’Brien why it’s so important to stay present. #video
Syria denies use of chemical weapons; UK and Turkey back U.S. concern; Israel urges military intervention.
Some members of Congress were told last week that the U.S. had evidence of Syrians killed by the chemical sarin.
Three important caveats on the Syria chemical weapons report and Obama’s red line.
McCain: Intervention in Syria “does not mean boots on the ground.”
Economists tend to think that more choice is good. Yet people with many options sometimes fail to make any choice at all.
Rape and the threat of sexual violence figured large in the American Civil War, yet Lincoln’s Lieber Code made it possible for women to seek justice in military courts.
Brazil and Peru quarrel with Amazon.com over “.amazon” domain name.
Stock of potential names for rock bands are dwindling, but it’s not because English is running out of words. #tmn
Pages from the working notebooks, the “Cahiers,” are written in fluid, all but illegible script, suggesting that Proust wrote quickly and easily.
Photographer takes portraits of every person in Oxford, Iowa, in 1984 and again in 2005. #photography #tmn
You’re seeing real pictures, real time, real color. On the enduring allure of vintage snapshots.
Healthy, inexpensive, environmentally friendly solution for housing millions of retiring baby boomers: the trailer park.
New study reveals net cost of attending prom is $1,139 per person—a 40% increase from 2011.
McDonald’s is one of Britain’s biggest educators, with 1m applicants a year, accepting only one in 15.
Poem for a spring Friday: Joyce Kilmer’s “Trees.”