Headlines from August 7, 2013

Chinese scientists show bird flu has spread among people and is indeed contagious, “although only slightly.”
Small-town police officer commended for insisting to call a child-on-child shooting “negligent,” not “accidental.”
Drill music brings fame to young rappers while Chicago becomes the murder capital; each has everything to do with the other. #longreads #tmn
We used to talk about New Jersey as if it were a cultural appendage to New York. Chris Christie’s identity campaign.
Rob Zombie and his wife, “just normal people like anyone else,” complain about skate-park noise in their small Connecticut village.
Mormon missionaries use pick-up basketball to win over converts. #video
After living in a Sao Paolo hospital for 45 years, patient to create stop-motion animation series about life with polio.
Behind every good fact-checker should be a skeptical reader. #tmn #journalism
Amazon launches Amazon Art, where customers can purchase artwork by the likes of Monet and Warhol.
Mid-century photographs of San Francisco’s Chinatown. #photography
In “Digital Cemetery,” USB drives resembling tombstones store internet data of the deceased.
His is a career that feels both forgotten and deeply embedded in modern pop. Album-by-album profile of Harry Nilsson.
London’s Capital Children’s Choir covers electronic music. #video
Man implants headphones in his ears, believing it’s the first step in being able to echolocate like a dolphin.
New research suggests bottlenose dolphins can retain long-term memory of up to 20 years.
Related: “Dolphin Spends Amazing Vacation Swimming With Stockbroker.”
People recite the longest words of their native tongues—Czech, Danish, Slovenian, Dutch, Hungarian, etc. #video
The entire town Rowley (all 8 of them). Captivating portraits of Canadians.
How the world looks when you stuff insects and flowers inside your camera. #tmn
Mugabe-appointed men charged with illegally lobbying to overturn U.S. economic sanctions against Zimbabwe.
Officials in Bahrain use fake Twitter accounts to track down IP addresses and punish critics of Hamad regime.
Finished dinner plates of India’s growing elite. #photography
Rahul Ghandi’s alleged claim that “poverty is just a state of mind” infuriates Indians on Twitter.
Study finds as temperature increases one standard deviation from the mean, the likelihood of interpersonal violence rises by 4 percent. via
Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world. Blockbuster screenwriter discusses the fight to stop himself, not top himself.
TV writers and academics explain the evolution of the 13-episode season. #tmn
Graduate student reproduces The Great Gatsby in typeface based on Jazz scores from the twenties.
Chinese performance artist, performing commentary on sexual abuse, sexually attacked on stage by angry male artists.
Missouri man snaps finger off a 600-year-old statue at a museum in Florence.
First-class travel on airlines is largely “superiority for hire,” and it’s a shame JetBlue doesn’t see it that way. #opinions
Man tries to bring his pet turtle on a plane by disguising it as a hamburger.
Man lets his children widely sample—and somehow survive—various fried things at the Indiana State Fair.
Obesity rate in children of low-income families experiences significant decline thanks to government intervention.
See also: How obesity harms a child.
New research shows men who survived the Holocaust outlive men who avoided it by an average of 6.5 months.
I don’t want to kill you. Tales from the Hunger Games-inspired summer camp in Florida.
Definitive answer to the ridiculous question that many people have asked in all seriousness: Could LeBron play in the NFL? Yes.