Headlines from January 5, 2007
- Do hawks win arguments because we're hardwired to prefer tough guys?
- Notwithstanding the constitutional right to remain silent, many people arrested talk freely.
- "Anecdotal research demonstrates curiosity is on the rise." New for 2007: anal intercourse.
- At a wireless hot spot, your data is open and available.
- Emergency sex, the life of Borges, the Mafia and the garbage trade, and other interesting recent podcasts.
- Not so much interesting as sigh-worthy, Bush pledges to no longer massage Merkel. (The massager.)
- Evidence of what gets pornographers hot: cell-phone delivery and older women.
- The defining facial features of prominent French explorers.
- Typical Parisian gestures.
- Pictures of Paris during the 1910 flood.
- How to photograph air; how to read old handwriting.
- Amazon's secret price guarantee, and the customer-service number they don't tell you about.
- Folate levels at record low; Associated Press ensures panic ensues.
- He heard voices outside his hospital room plotting against him. Justice Rehnquist, formerly hopped up on goof balls.
- Brilliant PR strategists in Libya surely behind new Saddam statue.
- Even Lindsay Lohan's appendix doesn't like her.
- Compelling, cute pink-o consumer overload.
- New Polish archbishop loved his red neighbors.
- Obituary for Zyzzyx Road, which made $30 at the domestic box office. (See updates.)
- Blogger went hungry for 30 days, only spent $27 on food, lost 18 pounds.
- New Yorkers can recycle their old electronics this weekend.
- The EU calls for a green "industrial revolution."
- Mp3s from the $25,000 Velvet Underground record.
- Occasional TMN contributor Bob Powers, a cruel man, releases cruelty in printed matter.
- Want to live forever? Forget wealth or health insurance--get educated.
- Police officers deliver baby on subway platform; Subway rescuer receives New York's highest award.
- Reward yourself: Sarah Hepola in today's Digest on the remarkable Beaver Trilogy.