Headlines from February 25, 2009
- Bernanke says recession will last another year if all goes according to plan.
- Home prices post biggest drop in 21 years.
- Wall Street Journal account of U.S.-Citigroup relationship chock full of details and intrigue.
- Interactive comparison of Obama's economic proposals compared to other presidents'.
- There is no one who can replace America. Without American leadership, there is no leadership.
- Brooks: Jindal's response to Obama speech was "insane."
- For all the bullying bluster of conservative talk-show hosts, their essential attitude is one of apology and submission.
- Palin settles ethics claim, agrees to compensate Alaska for children's travel expenses in 2008.
- Emily Badger hated Palin's cheap shot about paying taxes, and then she got audited.
- British and American cover art for Rooster books compared (see also: in New York, French and American writers meet).
- Notes on how the arts could play as big a role as basketball for the new administration.
- Forty-three years later, New Yorker films shuts down.
- Instapaper for the commute: 1957 Truman Capote interview with Marlon Brando.
- What it's like to film endangered languages (with fascinating sound clips).
- The brain science of gambling in casinos and on Wall Street.
- It had all the trappings of a State of the Union address but since technically it was not, President Obama did not have to utter those traditional words: "The state of our union is strong."
- Replacing a $278 million climate change monitoring satellite could be quick--if the money is there.
- How to shoot down a helicopter with a handgun.
- Field research shows the economic downturn is cramping the sex lives of the once-successful.
- Tales of encounters gone wrong, wrong, wrong: I Bang the Worst Dudes (Sorry, Mom).
- How bottling and selling New York City tap water finally became a business.
- The New York City buildings that weren't--or weren't as tall as intended--because of the Great Depression.
- Procrastination reveals the things at which we are most gifted--the things we truly want to do. Lessons from da Vinci
- Movies and videogames in reverse.
- The fun is in considering how awesome people thought they were, despite all that was missing. How the web has changed since 1996.
- Three hundred years after he left the island, scientists are piecing together the life of the real Robinson Crusoe.
- In the race to preserve dying languages, studying outliers helps us preserve and give prestige to dying people.
- I used to manage a band called The Format. They ceased to exist one year ago today.