August 26, 2011: Morning
By The Morning News
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- The MLK Memorial opening has been postponed—not that King wanted it in the first place.
- On the nature of memory, historical and structural amnesia, and society's humiliated silence.
- New Rimbaud translations confirm the poet as an enduring obsession for all rebels, e.g., Ashbery.
- In 1861 a committee tried to award the U.S. a national anthem; the decision came 70 years later.
- During MI5 questioning, German war prisoner P.G. Wodehouse denied Nazi collaboration.
- Four thousand light years away, a newly identified planet is believed to be one solid diamond.
- Studies of child speak show a universal grammar, though the lingo is mostly mispronounced words.
- Evolutionary biologist claims religion and epidemics evolved simultaneously to shape each other.
- El Niño's climate fluctuation linked to political conflict, civil war.
- Scientific paper explains false modesty and why smart people don't brag as much.
- Linguist says pronoun can show status, detect lies, and predict college performance.
- "Jeepers Crow" and other ways you can swear like a librarian.
- Inside America's premier fake vomit factory, where the chunks are still made by hand.
