Headlines from October 27, 2009
- Ex-A.I.G. chief builds a competitor that may impact A.I.G.'s means to repay taxpayers.
- Interview with a man who trains rats to detect landmines.
- Dementia experts dismiss N.F.L.'s future analysis of players' cognitive decline.
- Numerical evidence proves Derek Jeter is in fact a horrible shortshop.
- A modern history of neuroscience.
- How a man built a replica of a Pan Am first-class cabin in his garage (see photos).
- A submersible boat can be yours for $165,000.
- After publishing his Law of Universal Gravitation in 1687, Newton devised a novel way to demonstrate his concept to the public. Other notable balloons.
- Writer visits a libertarian seastead off the coast of California, finds giant floating bubbles, soundtrack of New Wave hits.
- For this month's "Of Recent Note," tell us about the first time you saw a horror movie.
- Color photography from Russia in the early 1900s.
- Obama's war on Fox News is nothing compared to F.D.R.'s rage against newspapers in the 1930s.
- A graphic history of newspaper circulation since 1990 depicts unpleasant dives.
- Bush is back, this time as a softshoe motivational speaker.
- Op: Torturing dogs or humans engenders compliance, not truth-telling.
- Comedian jokes about amputee soldiers; pols and editors outraged on soldiers' behalf; soldiers laugh, distrust pompous pols and editors.
- Political activists fulminate because it provides "so many of the requirements for human happiness."
- The science of rug wrinkles: moving bumps travel at around one meter per second.
- Mushroom-hunting urban-dwelling Russians get lost in the woods this time of year.
- Op: Every Indian novelist is a kind of translator.
- Google street view of Paris as modern photography.
- Chart of the world's various internet speeds and costs.
- From the perspective of science, there isn't--and has never been--anything natural about farming.
- Whole Earth founder praises cities and genetically modified crops.
- Blog dedicated to 19-century dust jackets.
- Videos: Kuroshio Sea; Rémi is a bat; Star Wars: Uncut.
- Photos of New York's waterfront.
- In case you need to know: How many people are in space right now?
- The more exclamation points used in an email, the more likely it is a complete lie. 10 natural laws of the internet.