February 24, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Violent protests precede Senegal's elections—unusual for a country with free voting since the late 19th century.
- U.S. labor-force participation rate of foreign-born in 2010: 68%; native-born rate: 64%.
- 130,000 displaced by fighting in Mali since mid-January.
- Somalia gives up on central state, shifts to system of zones of influence—best news in years for the country's development.
- Pictures of European hipsters and everything they possess.
- Dmitri Nabokov dies at 77.
- Related: Opera singer, mountain climber, and his father's best translator/collaborator, Dmitri led an impassioned life.
- Emotions come first when evaluating risk, then the rational brain looks for supporting evidence.
- Female cleaner fish more cooperative with unfamiliar males than their breeding partner.
- Sale of human growth hormone now big business in Hollywood; soon it will be over-the-counter, says regular user Stallone.
- Satellite tour of the world's biggest slums.
- Newly digitized collection of letters between Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett.
- Shortlist released for strange-title award includes The Mushroom in Christian Art, Cooking With Poo, and Mr Andoh's Pennine Diary Memoirs of a Japanese Chicken Sexer in 1935 Hebden Bridge.
- Photos of cars gradually consumed by nature.
- Savage, fun critique of new book by Blur bassist about his thing for cheese.
- A Tumblr of precious menswear and snacks.
- Revisiting: Kent Rogowski's inverted stuffed animals.
- J.K. Rowling to publish novel for adults this year.
