Friday Mood Music & A Roundup Of Must-Read Stories

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Friday Mood Music & A Roundup Of Must-Read Stories

GOOD FRI-AWW DAY, FOLKS! It’s almost lunchtime, which means production for the week is gearing down. Collect that pay stub and head out to lunch, but not before listening to Robin Thicke jammin’ with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots on Blurred Lines. It just barely beats out Fallon’s Chef Dominique Ansel’s Wednesday night cooking demonstration of his much-applauded
“cronuts”. Consider the song audio confection: a sweet midday pick-me-up that’ll make you skip your way out to lunch.

There’s lots of interesting news today — but there’s only one of me, so I’m going to link to a few intriguing stories that caught my attention while traveling the internets. Check them out.

Rolling Stone‘s issue featuring accused Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as dreamy rock star is a hit, selling twice the amount that it normally does on the newsstands. Yes, you who love the dark side are part of the problem. Expect more nude selfies published here in the coming months. (Hey, if it works for TheDirty…)
The Creationists are going to have a field day with this one: “Almost every man alive can trace their origins to one man who lived about 135,000 years ago, new research suggests.” And “Adam” lived about the same time as Eve. But they didn’t know each other or even mate, according to scientists. Until, we presume, that whole ‘Garden of Eden’ thing.
And from evolutionary scientists at the Michigan State University comes this tip: Being stingy doesn’t pay, genetically at least: “Being mean can give you an advantage on a short timescale but certainly not in the long run - you would go extinct.”
Feeling hot under the collar? Check the temperature outside. Echoing previous studies about crime and heat, a new meta study confirms that “hotter weather actually makes us want to kill each other.”
When you’re the head of an international empire, planning ahead can mean the difference between life and death. And interestingly, it was death that Queen Elizabeth was preparing us for when she wrote a speech in 1983 anticipating World War III. In one line of eerie foreboding, she wrote: “The enemy is not the soldier with his rifle nor even the airman prowling the skies above our cities and towns but the deadly power of abused technology.
Illuminating just how deep the sequestration cuts still need to go, 13 law enforcement officials showed up at the Society of St. Francis Animal Shelter in Wisconsin to take possession of a orphaned fawn that the shelter was temporarily housing. The agents, “armed to the teeth,” removed the fawn and later killed it because the state forbids citizens from raising wildlife. The shelter says the fawn was scheduled to be relocated to an Illinois wildlife preserve. Wisconsin authorities need to get a grip, and by that I don’t mean a gun handle.