January 9, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Round-up of Michele Bachmann's foreign-policy greatest hits.
- Trillin has Romney introducing himself to foreign leaders.
- Tiny explanations of politics to watch in Zimbabwe, Angola, Madagascar, South Africa.
- Haitians struggle to reach Brazil; Brazil struggles to accomodate Haitians.
- Italy's high-end accordion industry thrives despite 90% plunge since electric guitars appeared.
- American Psychiatric Association struggles with "culture-bound syndromes"—e.g., pibloktoq, aka “arctic hysteria.”
- Probably everything you need to know about the media and the internet, and/or My Little Pony dubstep.
- Treasures, poetic and otherwise, from the Shel Silverstein archive.
- Pico Iyer on Greene.
- Remnick's thorough review of Jodi Kantor's The Obamas.
- New podcast series from In Our Time's Melvyn Bragg: The Written World.
- Tyler Brûlé calls for Australians and New Zealanders to play a bigger world role, and for Sydney to have a hotel staffed by "attentive, attractive people."
- War photographers on the shots that almost killed them.
- Transcript of a chat with Louis C.K. about working at KFC and talking Conan out of putting a gun in his mouth.
- The Coke recipe may be secret, but not so the magic behind premium mineral waters.
- Episode of This American Life where an "original" Coke recipe is revealed.
