March 7, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Berlusconi convicted over wiretap, meanwhile appealing another conviction and facing two additional verdicts.
- Logic says the CIA didn't give Chávez cancer; its history of assassination ploys suggests it would have used a poisonous wetsuit.
- North Korea threatens pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States and South Korea.
- For Israelis, Biblical and Hitchcock references are irresistible when locusts arrive from Egypt three weeks before Passover.
- Animals capturing prey in slow motion.
- Algorithm results in store selling T-shirt labeled "Keep Calm and Rape a Lot," and the store claims it had no idea.
- Rape, March Madness, basketball in the state of Kentucky, and a story of one woman's varied experiences with victory.
- Indiana and Kentucky have unwittingly created one of the world’s best natural experiments for testing two methods of procuring infrastructure.
- Architectural critic offers advice to LA's next mayor on which glaring embarrassments to fix first.
- Arabic video games attempt to break stereotypes, provide venue for free speech in countries with heavy censorship.
- Thirty native speakers of various Sinitic languages offer Chinese words that may be the equivalent of English's "nerd."
- Good article on what it's like to rely on lipreading, when even the best lip-readers can only decipher 30% of what's being said.
- Intellectual appreciation for fanfic.
- The Tournament of Books swings into daily action today, with YA taking on the National Book Awards.
- TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin on Anne Carson's sequel to Autobiography of Red.
- Oldie but goodie: For hardcore TMN heads, children's music analyzed by Leslie Harpold, Sarah Hepola, Choire Sicha.
- Round-up of 38 amusing local news captions.
