March 29, 2012: Morning
- Public debate on the Affordable Care Act closes, and now the justices retreat for several months to contemplate.
- Headlines compete to riff on Jet Blue captain's meltdown.
- Self-defense militias attempt to protect citizens, but relief officials say they are worsening Congo's crisis.
- Thirty-four million people in the northern U.S. are in the midst of re-arranging their vowel system.
- New algorithm may do what only humans have previously achieved: accurately tune instruments.
- Journal article on "how to lower the volume of your sneeze" says never, ever plug your nose.
- Earl Scruggs dies at 88.
- Poet Adrienne Rich dies at 82 from complications of rheumatoid arthritis.
- Adam Phillips on poetry as a form of therapy and the perils of reading psychoanalytical criticism.
- Terrifying account of Dartmouth's humiliation/vomit culture.
- Notes from the wars between makers of waterproof-breathable fabrics.
- The great Bob Silvers on the early days of the Paris Review and the New York Review of Books.
- Foods pegged as "crack" sampled and rated for addictive qualities.
- Today in the Tournament of Books, Kevin and John extrapolate what Walter Kirn might have said.
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