Newsarific - July 8

China, fatness, the Queen’s tea, and a very uncomforable bra, after the jump.

American Obesity: Now in Map Form {Current}
Shocker: Americans are fat!!!! well, except in Colorado, Utah, and Montana.

Teen discovers bat hiding in her bra {Boing Boing}
Robin, to the bat cave!

China’s Pre-Olympics Media Clampdown {BusinessWeek}

So if you publish anything terrible about them between now and October, you won’t be tortured so badly.

Schools should teach teens, tweens about abuse {AP}
So, so necessary.

G8 Leaders Pledge to Cut Emissions in Half by 2050 {NYT}
Yeah, like we’ll still all be alive in 2050.

Hypnosis to go under the knife {BBC}
Badass: this woman used self-hypnosis as a pain relief for an operation

It’s Her Party: Queen has 8,000 subjects to tea {Newsvine/ AP}
That had the potential to be the most proper rave ever.

Obama denies shifting to reach political center {AP}
I love the man, but bulllll-shiiiit

New Gmail Features Protect from Snooping {Web Monkey}
Thank God.

“Generation Kill” tests appetite for war on TV {Reuters}
Scary, but probably necessary (and probably really, really good TV)

Colombian hostage rescue heads to big screen {Reuters}
Damn, already!?!

16-layer CD can now hold 400 gigabytes {Current}
Better have skip protection on my DiskMan

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