June 13, 2012: Morning
- It's time to acknowledge Syria's conflict as a civil war.
- World peace levels from 2007 to 2012.
- Tree density, as observed with Google Earth, makes for a unique indicator of income inequality.
- Relevant to Bloomberg's proposed soda ban: How the working class traded healthful diets for processed foods.
- There's no good reason for people to get so annoyed at "vinyls" being the plural of "vinyl."
- [Humans] alone use the relative movements of the Solar System’s components to organize our own commitments.
- Fascinating discussion on color names and how they affect the way we see the world.
- How Barbara Arrowsmith-Young devised mental exercises to change her brain and overcome a learning disability.
- Patients, physicians want the answers CT scans provide, but the risk of cancer has many questioning the value.
- The argument against the annual physical.
- WHO says diesel fumes are more carcinogenic than cigarettes, increase lung cancer risk sevenfold among nonsmokers.
- UK researchers say drinking and smoking doesn't affect sperm quality.
- How to get on the front page of the New York Times (written by an NYT reporter).
- New York Times profile of Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte includes unironic use of the phrase "diamond grillz."
- Reporter spends a week talking to everyone she sees.