Out of Print – The death and life of the American newspaper: Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin’s Courant, it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America’s last genuine newspaper. [New Yorker]
Lessons in seduction for Singaporeans: The Singapore government is offering students lessons in seduction in an attempt to boost the city state’s flagging birth rates. [Telegraph]
Dutch to publish DIY suicide manual: A scientific guide to DIY suicide is to go on sale in the Netherlands to help people end their lives quickly and painlessly. [Telegraph]
City of Fear: Operating by cell phone, a highly organized prison gang launched an attack that shut down Brazil’s largest city last May, with the authorities powerless to stop it. For many in São Paulo, this vast, amorphous criminal network is the only government they have. [Vanity Fair]
Man, 81, kills himself with shot from ’suicide robot’: An elderly man has killed himself by programming a robot to shoot him in the head after building the machine from plans downloaded from the internet. [Times]
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