June 7, 2012: Afternoon
- Quick summary of 50 years in Caribbean politics' "centrifugal" power shifts.
- The working class votes red not because of misinformation, but because of the right's strong vision.
- Women in northern Iraq commit suicide to avoid arranged marriages with their cousins.
- Design school is the new hotness in business education.
- Exactly how it sounds: tarp surfing.
- Bill Murray on life with his boys and why actors and artists should say no more than yes.
- Long piece (with incredible comments) on sex abuse at New York prep school Horace Mann.
- To move on after violence, basketball fandom can provide a way.
- Historical survey of the effective book-selling tactic: banning.
- Was prosecuting Charles Taylor worth the price? Interesting call for trickle-down justice.
- World's tiniest car chase filmed without any CGI trickery.
- Improv Everywhere creates a 100-strong car alarm symphony.
- Remains of Shakespeare's Curtain Theater, where Henry V premiered, unearthed in London.
- Call for music appreciation apps.
- Beautiful postmodern installation LUFTSCHLOSS by Anna Borgman and Candy Lenk.
- Photographs of Japan taken from waves just off the coastlines.
- Archival footage of the Golden Gate Bridge's construction.