Popular Elsewhere
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
If you want to know what "internet sensation" means in cold hard numbers, the Telegraph is here to help. A video of a group of eight and 10-year-olds covering a Metallica song have become said internet sensation according to the paper's popular article. The numbers: 350,000 hits in the first four days.
The Times' popular Celebrity Watch never fails to have a humorous simile. This week's compares the now defunct partnership of actors Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, 15 years her junior, as being as wrong as a marriage between a moose and a wardrobe.
Also on its radar is "singers" Jedward's outrageous column in OK magazine. They don't pull any punches (or make any sense) when they say they will request Jermaine Jackson to give them a shout-out at the trial over Michael Jackson's death.
The New York Times most read list, normally full of opinion pieces on government policy is today taken over by tributes and tales about Steve Jobs who has died. That is, apart from one story about dogs flying in planes. Well, it's more about dogs not flying on planes.
So many snub nosed dogs have died on US flights that they are now banned on most airlines. So now an airline called Pet Jets has started just to fly pets. Really.
Jokes about physics. They do exist. No honestly. Here's one about the discovery of neutrinos in a popular Washington Post article:
"We don't allow faster-than-light neutrinos in here," says the bartender
A neutrino walks into a bar.
From the speed of light to the speed of learning over at a popular Wired magazine article. Recent research shows that people learn faster if they focus on their mistakes. Which all leads to the question: how do you praise children. It says, the less you say "you must be smart at this" and the more you say "you must have worked really hard," the better.
14:40 UK time, Friday, 7 October 2011
