March 23, 2012: Morning
- EU slaps travel ban and assets freeze on Assad's wife, though she can still visit London.
- America's strategic oil reserve should be kept for a real emergency, not squandered for politics.
- Former New York Times restaurant critic Bruni diagnosed with gout.
- Brief accounting of the lives of Kyrgyz nomads, the world's last.
- Google Street View now ventures into the Amazon.
- Google's core product is now the larger Google, not just search.
- Writer sends open letter to writers of open letters, saying their day is done.
- See also: Teddy Wayne's 2011 letter to writers of open letters, saying day is done.
- Eight talking points for addressing young black men about Trayvon Martin and "the potentially fatal condition of being black."
- Analysis of the language of body gestures.
- See also: The art of commercial fishing.
- Regularly updated gallery of every nipple on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Notes on the real life of Casanova, much more than a frivolous sexual adventurer.
- RIP Australian climber Lincoln Hall, man who died twice.
- Team of doctors recount the frantic effort to save a soccer player who died for 78 minutes on the field.