Headlines from November 26, 2013

Consumers turn to private insurance-market websites to buy coverage while healthcare.gov remains troubled.
Private company purchases 150 acres of Detroit, with plans to turn the derelict East Side into farmland and orchards.
Though its strategies have proven ineffectual, no one can blame the USPS for trying to save itself partly with stamps.
Human babies are 75% water, just a little bit wetter than bananas.
Saturday marks the end of storm season—and it may be the last season for a while that New York City experiences without a hurricane. #tmn
Maps show how different drugs are enjoyed in different states; substance abuse is worst in California and Rhode Island.
There is no statistical proof that doctors enjoy a better quality of life before death than the rest of us. But research indicates they are better planners.
Americans have gotten better about racism, yes, but we keep relearning the wrong lesson. #opinions
One of the reasons there’s so much talk about money is that it’s so much easier to talk about than the art. Profile of David Zwirner, top contemporary art dealer.
Pictures of Socotra island, “the Galapagos of the Indian Ocean.” #photography
Photographs of three nebulae: the Eye of God, the Second Eye of God, and the Eye of Satan.
Three weeks before Lolita arrived in bookstores, Dorothy Parker published a story in the New Yorker, titled “Lolita,” about an older man, a teen bride, and her jealous mother.
Born 100 years ago, Benjamin Britten’s music—written to be understood, and not avant-garde—is only now coming into focus.
If artists make more than three times from concerts as they do from recordings, are streaming and theft just record label problems?
Round-up of 17 “ancient” websites that still work despite being “abandoned.”
Studies in French of cats and mirrors. #video
D.C. Republicans increasingly furious at the Heritage Foundation, notably its 31-year-old “revolutionary.”
Iran and America’s top diplomats are selling the landmark nuclear agreement very differently at home.
Primer on the Iran nuclear agreement.
The sudden knowledge that someone will never love you drops into your brain chilly and small like a marble. “A Guide to Eating Very Particular Feelings.”
The champagne of Maine is coffee-flavored booze for many reasons, none of them healthy. #tmn
Despite Adam Lanza’s interests and possessions, no motive seems clear for the Sandy Hook massacre.
Since Newtown, 10,912 people have been killed by guns in America.
Mexican children see 12,000 junk-food ads on television a year, more than in any other country.
Reporter looks into a theme park chain where kids play at corporate-sponsored employment. #tmn
Investigation finds the American Humane Association has bestowed its “No Animals Were Harmed” label on multiple films where animals were injured or killed.
This past year, says A.O. Scott, the movies finally struck back against the excellence of television.
The 10th anniversary of the Tournament of Books is coming soon, meaning it’s time to nominate your favorite book, plus apply to be the 2014 Reader Judge. #tmn
James Franco and Seth Rogen spoof the Kanye-Kim motorcycle video. #video
Robot designers challenged to remember the social consequences of what they’re doing—i.e., possibly building components for Terminators.
Clients pay Twitter robot master to use his 10,000 accounts to make them appear more popular and influential.
The true state of the internet economy is revealed when nine-thousand “porny” spambots descend on a San Diego teenager.
Mother’s story of how she became the Erin Brockovich of revenge porn.