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How I Accidentally Kickstarted the Domestic Drone Boom

Chris Anderson | Wired | 22 June 2012

Editor of Wired is playing with his kids in 2007, decides he can build a better remote-control plane using repurposed Lego parts, starts a social network of like-minded geeks, now they've got more dronepower than the US military Comments

Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past

Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand | Spiegel | 22 June 2012

Interview with Daniel Barenboim. On Wagner, Germany, Israel, Palestine, Holocaust. "There are probably many people in Israel who believe that Wagner, who died in 1883, lived in Berlin in 1942 and was friends with Hitler" Comments

Waiting Game

Frank Partnoy | FT | 22 June 2012

Wonderful. On the value of procrastination, or what the game of tennis can teach us about decision making. "There is both an art and a science to managing delay." It's something we've become less skilled at in our high tech age Comments

What Darwin's Theory Of Evolution Reveals About Artificial Intelligence

Daniel Dennett | Atlantic | 22 June 2012

Big thinker, big theme, big piece. "What Darwin and Turing had both discovered was the existence of competence without comprehension." Gradualism and process can produce results that nobody expects, or intends, or even understands Comments

The Rise Of The Fork

Sara Goldsmith | Slate | 20 June 2012

Knives and spoons have been around for millennia. Not so the fork. It only reached our tables recently. But even so "our changing fork habits reveal our attitudes about big subjects, including religion, masculinity, and foreignness" Comments

Mystery Genre’s Terrible Secret

Daniel Friedman | Millions | 22 June 2012

"The biggest secret in crime fiction is that there are really only, like, four ways to tie up a mystery, and I’m going to show you all of them in 1,200 words. Get ready to have an entire genre irrevocably spoiled" Comments

'Jeopardy!' Host Alex Trebek Suffers Heart Attack


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Box Office Report: 'Brave' Hits Bullseye With $66.7 Mil; 'Abraham Lincoln' Soft $16.5 Mil


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Cheat Sheet - We Are All Penn State

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Today: Turkey Calls for NATO Meeting , Michael Tomasky: Democrats Should Come Out Swinging Against the Court , Egypt Election Winner to Be Named
Cheat Sheet: Morning

June 24, 2012
GUILTY

As Jerry Sandusky awaits sentencing in a county jail, residents of Pennsylvania's Happy Valley tell the Patriot-News it will take "years" for the area to recover from the scandal. But it wasn't just university leadership that enabled Jerry Sandusky, writes The Daily Beast's Paul Campos. It was a system that discourages making waves at all costs—and it infects every corner of America. Plus, Diane Dimond reports on what's next for Sandusky, and a juror says he's "confident" the right verdict was reached.

ESCALATION

Turkey on Sunday called for a NATO meeting to discuss Syria after that country shot down one of Turkey’s warplanes Friday. Turkey’s foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, said Sunday that the warplane had entered Syrian airspace, but left quickly for international airspace after being warned. Davutoglu said the plane was clearly marked as Turkish, dismissing Syria’s earlier statements that it had not known the plane was Turkish. Davutoglu said the plane had just been conducting routine training exercises and had not been part of any covert mission. A NATO spokesman said the council will meet Tuesday.

BATTLE PLAN

If the Supreme Court overturns the health-care law, Democrats will be tempted to sulk and feel sorry for themselves. But that’s the last thing they should do, writes Michael Tomasky.

REVOLUTION

Egypt will announced the winner of its first presidential election Sunday as extra security was sent into Cairo’s Tahrir Square to deal with any violence after thousands have protested for days. Former prime minister—and ally of former president Hosni Mubarak—Ahmed Shafiq announced on his Facebook page that he had won, although the Muslim Brotherhood said it would stage a long-term protest if Shafiq wins the election. His opponent Mohamed Morsi, who represents the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood party, also declared victory Sunday morning. Interior spokesman Gen. Marwan Mustapha said they have issued a “shoot to kill” order if any violence breaks out.

PLAYING POLITICS

Mitt Romney defended his former company Bain Capital after a Washington Post report claimed that the venture-capitalist firm invested in companies that outsourced jobs. Calling the report “fundamentally flawed,” Romney insisted that the “outsourcing” does not necessarily mean that jobs were sent overseas, which is known as “offshoring.” A super PAC supporting President Obama launched an attack on Romney’s record at Bain this weekend, which features a plant employee building a stage to announce layoffs proposed by Bain who said it was like “building my own coffin.”


BAD TIMING
Greek PM to Miss EU Summit
Still recovering from eye surgery.
SCANDAL
Horace Mann Teacher Admits Sex
Retired teacher says he had sex with students.
PREPARATIONS
Tropical Storm Debby Churns in Gulf
Exact path uncertain.
SPORTS
Lolo Jones Wins Olympic Spot
For the second consecutive time.
UH-OH
NYC Nightclub Hit With 14 Violations
Had been scene of alleged Chris Brown-Drake fight.
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