Headlines from November 13, 2009
- Glimpse into Goldman Sachs's trading in 2008, most likely its best year ever.
- New wealth tactic: Invest in the companies that make you angriest.
- Op: At the very least, it should be government's job to say what's inherently governmental (e.g., assassination).
- Commie Obama T-shirts banned in Beijing.
- Indonesia's hamburger king turns 13 McDonald's into Toni Jack's outlets, complete with pirate logos.
- Survey of wristwatches worn by Russian officials.
- Before holiday shopping begins, a method for improving all of your online passwords in a few minutes.
- It's one thing to be contrarian about minor things like the economics of sumo wrestling. Clay Risen on the downfall of Freakonomics.
- Newly revealed Nazi sympathies may endanger the validity of Hannah Arendt's work.
- Liberia's laws are being held for ransom by former justice minister.
- When it comes to folklore in Indiana, and perhaps beyond, Google's book-scanning program serves the side of good.
- You've got to admit that Pluto really pioneered the exploration of that icy zone of the solar system. Ode to Pluto.
- Scientist reflects on the first troubled year of the Large Hadron Collider.
- Scenes from an alternate universe where The Beatles accepted Lorne Michaels's offer to be on SNL.
- On the set with Octomom--the Catch-22 of needing media attention to support your family.
- Sven Birkerts on Updike and Wallace: "two Pisces, their element water, their salient quality mutability."
- Time to kill: Fifty best inventions of 2009; Quizipedia.