Headlines from September 16, 2008
- Putin, judo black-belt, accepts Sarkozy as pupil.
- Sarkozy combats global piracy with French troops.
- Ever since World War II, the United States has tended to make its strategic missteps by exaggerating dangers.
- Astronomers find dark matter "bridge to nowhere" stretching across 14 galaxies.
- Print for the commute: The peculiar political climate of Alaska.
- Top 13 polar vehicles from the Antarctic.
- Can you really see Russia from Alaska? Yes, but only the boring parts.
- Caricaturists share their methods for drawing the V.P. Candidates.
- What it's like a fly-fish with Cheney.
- Is pornography adultery? Can embracing online porn save marriages?
- It appears that financial institutions earn money on transactions and lose everything taking risks they don't understand.
- Notes on recent discoveries in neuroaesthetics towards providing a unified biocultural theory of art.
- New favorite blog: Bill Bishop's "The Big Sort," on breaking down voting patterns.
- When you have a moment: Neanderthals, revealed.
- McCain '07: I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a governor for a short period of time.
- The Truth-O-Meter follows the candidates' claims, backing up and debunking where necessary.
- Op: Since nobody seems to have noticed, 20 million Americans are going to lose employment-based health coverage under McCain.
- Palin will not cooperate with "tainted" probe into the firing of her public safety commissioner in Alaska.
- Op: Messianic U.S foreign policy created a clash of civilizations--Palin would help remake that mistake.
- Clashes continue outside ceremony to mark formation of Zimbabwe's unity government.
- This scenario is fictional and used to emphasize contextual challenges posed by emerging media environments. The Pentagon discovers World of Warcraft
- After a year of corruption, distrust, and a war that has killed 2,700, Mexican police have renewed hope with new technology, leadership.
- Indian judges are convicting suspects based on brain-scan interrogations--few lend credence to the untested technology.
- Reporters say things like "You won't believe what I'm seeing!" and then they don't describe what they are seeing for the listeners. Hunkering down in post-Ike Houston.
- Video: Asking 50 New Orleanians one question: "What do you wish would happen before the end of the day?"
- David Gilmour pays tribute to his band mate, the late Richard Wright.
- It's the time of the third and fourth rounds, the tournament's meat, the time of trench warfare and polysyllabic names. David Foster Wallace at the 1995 U.S. Open.
- Video: Ninja cat comes closer while not moving!