Headlines from November 21, 2013

White paper finds worldwide income inequality falling consistently over four decades, especially in the last decade.
Ballet dancers now think of themselves as brands, causing havoc among companies.
First people to hear Joy Womack’s allegations about the Bolshoi Ballet were seated in a small Virginia library. #tmn
Study of foxes shows that facial beauty in foxes—and possibly in humans—is “a reliable marker of underlying desirable behavior.”
New female-friendly app lets women anonymously review men who are their Facebook friends.
Online-dating data find that men in all racial groups prefer to date other races over their own.
Even during Linsanity 2.0, the Asian American community needs Jeremy Lin as a rallying point. #opinions
R. Kelly visits the Rolling Stone offices and sings love songs about dolphins and sandwiches. #video
Profile of Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia librarian who singlehandedly recorded 35 years of TV news in her spare time.
Biologists speculate that children’s “famously finicky attitude to eating up their greens” is a smart reaction when so many plants in the world are toxic.
After much study and scrutiny for political thought, the Aztecs remain “hard to love.”
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Final volume published of The Plum in the Golden Vase in a high-quality English translation—China’s epic erotic novel that was composed during the late Ming Dynasty.
Firm offers extremely expensive service that guarantees putting your book on the New York Times bestsellers list.
By intervening in Mali, France may have saved other African nations from civil war, which often spills across borders.
A client…offers to give you more money. Kenya’s sex workers choose antiretroviral drugs over condoms.
For most Texans, the closest clinic to offer abortions after 20 weeks will stay open—it’s in Albuquerque.
Exiled from Germany by the Nazis in 1933, little is known of Fritz Kahn—but he may have invented the infographic.
Adhering to Russia’s anti-gay law, Ikea removes lesbian couple from local edition of its magazine.
Vancouver to ban doorknobs, as levers are less discriminatory anyway.
All the turtlenecks in Love Actually, ranked.
Pianist tells young musician not to keep a piano at home because it will keep you from working hard.
Each time I finished reading Gone With the Wind, I began again. It was my Twilight.
Half of all active Twitter users live in just five countries: the U.S., Japan, Indonesia, the UK, and Brazil.
A team of entrepreneurs reads Amazon customer reviews to develop can’t-miss products to sell on Amazon.
From the Google Cultural Institute: media from July 7, 1863, to March 11, 1864, on Lincoln’s Gettysburg Addresses.
See also: Lincoln’s speech at Gettysburg was just three minutes long and nearly meaningless. #tmn
Mailer’s early success made his struggle “to be a man”…into a struggle to distinguish reality from everything around it.
He wears sweaters like our dad did and he accumulates stuff like our mom does. Two brothers illustrate a book mostly for children.
In 1977, filmmaker Chantal Akerman captured long shots of life in New York City. #video
Researchers find caffeinated coffee may improve the function of small blood vessels.