Sunday 11.04.2012 New York Times Digest

1. Dining Through Disaster

“It’s never been easier to eat well in the face of the Apocalypse.”

2. Gay Pakistanis, Still in Shadows, Seek Acceptance


3. A Capitalist’s Dilemma, Whoever Wins on Tuesday


4. Download: Sal Khan

“I’m actually a bit of a technophobe, which surprises people. I like to stay unplugged as much as possible. I’m not the kind to hang out on Facebook or Twitter or even talk on the cellphone, really. I think I’ve written like five text messages this year.”

5. How Science Can Build a Better You

“How far would you go to modify yourself using the latest medical technology?”

6. Abe Lincoln as You’ve Never Heard Him

“For The Last of the Mohicans he taught himself to build a canoe, shoot a flintlock and trap and skin animals. For the opening scene of My Left Foot, about Christy Brown, an artist with cerebral palsy, he taught himself to put a record on a turntable with his toes; he also insisted on remaining in a wheelchair between takes and being fed by the crew. He learned to box, naturally, for The Boxer, in which he played a prizefighter and former member of the Irish Republican Army and in the process broke his nose and damaged his back. To play the gang leader Bill the Butcher in Gangs of New York, he took butchering lessons, and to play Abraham Lincoln he half-convinced himself that he was Abraham Lincoln.”

7. How Hurricane Sandy Slapped the Sarcasm Out of Twitter


8. Single for the Holidays


9. What Everyone Was Saying

“You can always look it up.”

10. Known Unknowns


11. Digital Natives and Their Customs

“To my shock, when we asked about the key event in their lives, they said it was the advent of digital culture.”

12. Tips From a Professional Cheat

“Editing is important. But in this context, by not editing, by leaving in the inevitable typos and spoonerisms, my work might more closely resemble that of the client.”

13. The Year of the MOOC


14. Show Me Your Badge


15. Regrets of an Accomplished Child

“The overtly accomplished child is often the less educated one.”

16. Empire of the In-Between


17. How Do You Raise a Prodigy?

Prodigy derives from the Latin prodigium, a monster that violates the natural order.”

18. A Problem of Churchillian Proportions

“I realized that having never written a book before, Paul had no idea how much time it was really going to take, and so his estimates were, as he would cheerfully admit later, hopelessly off. And some of what did come in was really rough.”

19. #InPraiseOfTheHashtag




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