Headlines from January 31, 2008
- Video: What does the man on the street in China think about the U.S. election?
- The winners, if there are winners, are going to be financial investors who have seen this recession coming and who have in effect bet financially on an economic downturn.
- Why my mother dumped Hillary for Obama.
- Print for the commute: Questions of judicial funding and consistent errors in the Georgia trial of Brian Nichols.
- Concerning this weekend, in case you need a definite history of the Bud Bowl.
- Science confirms middle-age blues; casual observation confirms Starbucks breakfast sandwiches were "made of failure."
- Rules, regulations, and history of subway racing in New York.
- Chimps beat college students (and perhaps you) in memory race; which genes are expressed in chimps and humans may depend on what's digested.
- One wonders which gene is expressed in the cheeseburger-in-a-can.
- The inner workings when you express via blog post in full infographic glory.
- In today's feature, Todd Levin discusses TV-PIXX: Classic Intellivision games that were played over the telephone.
- Photos from Beijing's Shijingshan Amusement Park where de-Disneyification is in progress.
- Too bad the "bird poops in mouth of local news reporter" video was fake--or perhaps not.
- Suicides among soldiers have reached their highest level since 1980, when the Army began keeping such records.
- I would describe in detail my mother, diagnosed with breast cancer... my aunt who died of the same kind of bladder cancer that I had... before adding, "Oh yeah. And I'm adopted."
- Warning, sports fans: the Super Bowl may be dangerous to your health.
- This year's Super Bowl ads will be free of blood and guts--unlike the political ads that continue to dominate the airwaves.
- Washington University rejects a potential Obama visit; disappointed students seek comfort on Facebook.
- In 2005, Bill Clinton endorsed a donor in Kazakhstan, who then became richer, who then donated more money to the Clinton Foundation, which will now be a talking point in the next debate.
- "[He] didn't really move to the left as much as he began to use the language of class war." How John Edwards's campaign unraveled.
- Why Giuliani tanked: It's that New York lifestyle says "hick Iowa senator."
- "We're thinking of their historical importance, not their artistic value." The Danish Royal Library is collecting infamous, controversial cartoons.
- The skeletons of famous cartoon animals, built from a combination of real bones and synthetic materials.
- U.N. personnel in the Western Sahara vandalized ancient rock paintings--here are images of the graffiti.
- Famous Quakers: Judi Dench joined because she liked the uniforms.
- How the nugget machine changed the world for ice-chewers everywhere.
- The science and specifics behind macking on one another.