Headlines from February 9, 2009
- Timeline of dirty secrets and scuttlebutt behind the Merrill/Bank of America marriage.
- Short answer to the big question: How did this economic crisis really come about?
- Op: Save the economy by not humiliating your local investment banker in public.
- Defining the Arbesman Limit: "the maximum number of concepts or ideas that can be named after a single person."
- Starbucks works on tiny tricks to present a humbler face.
- How half a million dollars gets spent (rather quickly) on the Upper East Side.
- Instapaper for the commute: How the Super Bowl ends up on TV.
- Fascinating in both business and creative terms: how Coraline was marketed off- and online.
- Canada's Captain Sullenberger: Svein Tuft, top cyclist with an incredible story of mountains, miles, and bivouacs behind him.
- TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin on the very best Sherlock of all: Jeremy Brett.
- Why Nadal will be the greatest ever tennis player, and why top players fail at 28.
- Op: The Reader is the Worst Holocaust Film Ever Made.
- Vatican removes Holocaust-denying Bishop.
- Jewish conspiracy theories find appeal in China and Japan despite scarcity of Jews.
- Videos we're then reminded of: Starfish Hitler; every swear in The Sopranos.
- Obama pauses Afghan surge, concerned for lack of endgame, eager to avoid a quagmire.
- U.S. aids Ugandan troops fighting terrorism, fails to appreciate volatility of Congolese border, swats the hornet's nest.
- A posh time was had by all, and they remained in the pink. Postcards from grandparents' trip to Japan in the late 1920s.
- A look back at the 1966 GE College Bowl, when Agnes Scott defeated Princeton, and where the contestants are today.
- Things have been going downhill in America since the very beginning. Don't believe those who say America's best days are behind it.
- Photos: Dogs waiting for their humans.
- And what does John Lennon have to do with all of this? Surprisingly, nobody's built any animatronic Beatles yet. Lennon and the Uncanny Valley.
- In the grand scheme of things, the way our brains are wired hasn't changed much over the past few centuries--we're running new software on old hardware.
- Op: Technology is eroding our capacity to be alone; we are afraid of being left behind.
- Dreamed that President Obama, Jamie Oliver & I saved the economy. Gathered from Twitter, dreams involving Barack Obama.
- Gallery: Great achievements in American socialism.
- "This is the happiest day of my life," lies man holding baby.