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JUNE 2012
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There are automobile collections,
and then there are automobile
collections that hold Guinness world
records. Harold and Nancy LeMay’s
fleet—fromwhich 500 cars, includ-
ing a 1930 Duesenberg Model J and
a custom 1958 Pontiac Bonneville,
have been drawn to create the new
LeMay Museum in Tacoma, Wash.—
is one of the latter.
JUNE 2
If you’re among those who watched
Disney’s
Cars
and thought it might
be nice to spend some time in
Radiator Springs, take the family to
Disney California Adventure Park
in Anaheim, Calif., this summer. Its
new Cars Land offers racing rides,
Flo’s V8 Café and the chance for
little ones to get towed around by
’Mater.
JUNE 15
AndyWarhol’s preoccupation with
Americana didn’t stop at soup cans.
More than 40 automobile-themed
works by the artist (plus a 1979 film
of him painting the BMW race car
shown above) will be in the spotlight
at “Warhol and Cars: American
Icons” at Alabama’s Birmingham
Museum of Art.
JUNE 24
1.
Students were given 20
problems to solve and were
told they’d be paid 50 cents
per correct answer. After five
minutes, one group turned in
their sheets, while the other
shredded theirs and reported
how many they got right. The
former solved an average of
four; the latter claimed six.
2.
The study was repeated,
only this time the reward for
a correct answer ranged from
25 cents to $10. Shredders
still reported an average of
two more solved problems
than the others. However,
those offered $10 per answer
actually cheated less.
3.
To see if fear of getting
caught was a factor, Ariely had
one group not shred, one half-
shred (so evidence remained)
and another shred before
leaving the room and paying
themselves out of a big bowl
of money outside. Amazingly,
the level of cheating remained
stable. Find out why on
JUNE 5
.
Dirty Lies
and Statistics
Economist
DanAriely
,
the man behind the
mind-bending bestseller
Predictably Irrational
, is back
with
The (Honest) Truth About
Dishonesty
, a surprising look at
why we lie and what keeps us
honest. Here’s one of his charac-
teristically clever experiments.
Drive Time
As it turns out, June
is quite the month for
America’s favorite vehicle.
Among the highlights:
Road Tested
Riding shotgunwith a rock legend
In
Neil Young Journeys
, a new documentary by Jonathan
Demme, the two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee
reveals how he decides if a song is up to snuff. “I can tell if I like
the music,” he says from behind the wheel of a black ’56 Crown
Victoria, “by listening to it in a car.”
It’s fi ing, then, that Demme should choose to anchor his third
Young concert film in the 85-mile drive from the folk rocker’s
hometown of Omemee, Ontario, to Toronto for the last two
nights of his 2011 world tour. Watching it feels like you’re taking
a run to the 7-Eleven with your uncle, as Young points out his
former haunts. At one point in the film, he recounts the time an
older neighborhood kid convinced him to eat tar off the road.
“That,” he says with a wry smile, “was the beginning of my close
relationship with cars.”
june 29
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