November 7, 2011: Morning
By The Morning News
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- International Atomic Energy Agency to say Iran now has the ability to produce a workable nuclear weapon.
- Cole: Netanyahu and Barak are bluffing about bombing Iran; Obama won't green-light Israeli adventurism.
- Related: David Remnick, in a nuanced assessment, not so sure (at least about the first part).
- Pakistan is the ally from hell, in a partnership from which we have no escape.
- "Parahawking"—sport that combines falconry and paragliding.
- Brits who wear the red poppy on their lapels indulge in propaganda and mock the dead.
- Chinnie Ding analyzes the psychology of our screen savers.
- History of homesickness, which, under the guise of "nostalgia," was a killer during the Civil War.
- Similar graffiti found in Pompeii, A.D. 79, and Los Angeles, 1965.
- David Rees investigates how tall is Jake Gyllenhaal.
- Profile of hip-hop beat-maker Lex Luger, the man with a million sounds.
- Failure of a puppeteer to find a job he loves is a terrible way to illustrate the job market's woes.
- In 2009 the U.S. graduated 89,140 students in the visual and performing arts, more than in computer science, math, and chemical engineering combined.
- Professors struggle to keep college students intrigued while undergoing “the math-science death march.”
- See also: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comics.
