January 5, 2012: Afternoon
- British Heart Foundation teaches CPR to the masses by encouraging disco-beat chest compressions.
- In Israel, anyone who registers as an organ donor is eligible immediately for high priority to obtain an organ.
- Chart: Libya's economy will be the fastest-growing in 2012, Sudan's the fastest-shrinking.
- Craze in South Africa for fish and chips.
- Game we endorse: “Don’t Be A Di*k During Meals With Friends.”
- Vegan bodybuilders become Times trend story that includes line about "antibeef beefcakes."
- Public intellectual beefcake Francis Fukuyama is blogging again.
- To understand why the distinction between them still matters, we need to remind ourselves what the terms “conservative” and “reactionary” originally meant.
- Postcard guide to cracking "Cupid's code" of stamp placement.
- Bizarre just to write the headline: Paypal policy requires antique violin destroyed.
- Two centuries later, French botanist who was forced to dress like a man recognized as first woman to circumnavigate the globe.
- Tintin leaves the uncanny valley behind for hyperreality.
- Supercut of Gene Shalit's puns.
- Michel Gondry swedes Taxi Driver.
- Splay a bream and tusk a barbel: proper terms for carving meat.
- Oral histories of Southern foodstuffs.