Headlines from November 15, 2013

Neuroscientists say creativity and mental illness share a similar degree of vulnerability, called “cognitive disinhibition.”
Argentina’s central bank is losing more than $1B a month, with a reserve less than those of Romania, Nigeria, Angola, or Lebanon.
“China’s cake millionaire at home in his six castles.”
Once a Mad Men-like boys club, the CIA’s female employees now number more than 50%.
Japanese food chain lures female customers by designing a burger wrapper that lets them look pretty while chomping down.
UK frozen food giant offers zeitgeist-y selections like chicken tikka lasagna and Rice Krispie-battered fried shrimp.
I’ve heard that cocaine is legal in Columbia; is this true? Globalvisa.com aggregates the odd questions, requests, and excuses they’ve received.
Chattanooga becomes the first city in the U.S. to have its own official font.
Moleskine celebrates 100th anniversary of Swann’s Way with sketches of esteemed literati reading Proust.
Improv group surprises Katz’s Deli with mass recreation of fake orgasm scene from When Harry Met Sally.
Because they marry and reproduce and vote and they know nothing. Cheever’s first published short story.
You can be a Maltese citizen for $865,000, but Malta is not the only country in which you can buy citizenship.
Paleontologists find ancient pantherine fossil in Tibet—shaking the belief that big cats originated in Africa.
Hubble image reconstructs the Milky Way as it would have been 11 billion years ago.
Isolated from their ocean-dwelling descendants for 15,000 years, jellyfish in Eil Malk lake have a weakened sting. #video
People like us had to accept that we were not going to be happy. One of the best academic essays written about Melville.
Aid goes unseen in many parts of the Philippines; officials post death toll of 4,000 in Tacloban alone.
Police commander in the Philippines fired for his estimate of 10,000 dead from the typhoon.
In the midst of a “robbery epidemic,” rich neighborhoods in Oakland, Calif., hire private cops.
Police officers in Kenya, believed to be the country’s most corrupt officials, now take bribes by cellphone.
Photo released of a saola in the wild in Vietnam—the rare “Asian unicorn” that doesn’t exist in captivity.
Pop Warner football programs see a 10% drop in participation between 2010 and 2012.
Studies say if you want to waste time online productively, “stare at random YouTube babies, not the babies of your Facebook friends.”
Mormon writers said to gravitate to genre fiction because it avoids the dirty aspects of adult life and avoids disapproval.
Author William T. Vollmann reveals he is a devoted cross-dresser in a new book of photographs and paintings.
Publishers of tiny, semi-cult magazines discuss how they’ve adapted—or not—to the digital world. #tmn
New credit card Coin stores all of your other cards’ information inside it.
See also: Classical paintings modified to include iPhones and other Apple products. via
Canadian competitive laughing championship offers “the Alabama Knee-Slapper,” the “Sexiest Laugh,” and Gary Oldman’s Dracula.
Trailer for what appears to be the new movie by Alfonso Cuarón (not really), IKEA. #video
Related: Matthew Baldwin’s classic, “fully immersive” IKEA adventure. #tmn
Homes offered for people who love the Disneyland experience so much, they want to live inside it.