Headlines from May 22, 2014

Friendship blooms on Twitter between the nationalist leaders of India and Japan ever since Modi won.
Anyone born in violation of China’s one-child-per-couple policy does not exist legally.
See also: Ta-Nehisi Coates on the case for reparations to African-Americans. #longreads
Patients have as equal a right to see what the doctor writes when their minds hurt as when their knees hurt. Beth Israel gives patients access to therapists’ notes.
Good, solid thinking is very hard to do—but even if it’s not wired into us genetically, it can be learned. #opinions
It should have been the best business tool since the telephone. Instead email has become the biggest time-waster since television.
Side effects of Google Glass may include “glassing out,” overheating, and social death.
Roger Federer and Stefan Edberg strap on Google Glass. #video
Courts at Roland Garros have 10 inches of stone, six inches of slag, four inches of limestone, three millimeters of broken brick, and no clay.
Fifty senators, citing the example of quick action against Donald Sterling, urge the NFL to change the name of the Washington Redskins.
Schadenfreude does not square with America’s national obsession with the comeback story. Happiness at the misfortune of others is as American as apple pie. #tmn
Veteran reporter learns, 38 years later, that he’s allergic to newspaper ink.
Homemade powdered alcohol: a journalist swallows it, snorts it, sprinkles it on pizza, and lights it on fire before concluding that beer is better.
Reporter replaces her soaps and shampoos with billions of bacteria slowly coaxed onto the skin.
France to trim 15% of its railway platforms, after realizing a fleet of new trains is too wide to fit into stations.
Famous massive engineering mistakes, from too-fat trains to sinking submarines.
Next time you hear a Pharrell song at a party, you can point out that many of his songs begin the exact same way.