December 3, 2012: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Britain and France to protest Israel's decision to approve new homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
- Q&A with Guy Delisle on his fantastic travel comic Jerusalem: Chronicles From the Holy City.
- Homeless man, famous for receiving boots from New York cop, is shoeless again for fear of being mugged.
- "Concierge medicine" offers unlimited visits for $50 a month, plus cut-rate drugs and quick responses on email and Twitter.
- Very first picture snapped of DNA.
- Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang blows up a tree outside the Smithsonian in the spirit of diplomacy and Christmas.
- Japan's ninja grandmasters elect to choose no heirs, saying the way of the ninja is useless next to guns, modern drugs, and the internet.
- The pleasure of Twitter is the here and now; the agony of Facebook is the ever-present past.
- Ken Auletta on Elisabeth Murdoch.
- Fifteen great articles to celebrate the greatness of Richard Pryor.
- Fancy white people's dinner parties being killed off by social media, apparently.
- Evidence remains overwhelmingly in favor of drinking coffee, lots of it.
- All landings from a four-hour window at San Diego Airport on Nov. 23, 2012.
- Portraits of "impact sites," where Earth has been struck by meteorite fragments.
- For Lincoln, Kushner relied on historical dictionaries, but also let fly his own lyricism.
- Monday poem: "The Present" by Jim Harrison.
- From 2008: "British publishing industry is now [worth] £2.8 billion—a little more than fish or cheese and a little less than bread."
- Study of the chemicals that give durian fruit its potent smell and taste—like kissing a dead grandmother.
