Headlines from February 2, 2010
- The rat says so: Punxsutawney Phil predicts six more weeks of winter.
- Al Qaeda dropouts may provide the key to radicalism.
- Scientists create possible nuclear-waste-eating Venus flytrap.
- Choire Sicha offers the most accurate review possible of When in Rome.
- A new kind abstinence-only program--it doesn't preach morality or marriage--has actually diminished rates of teen sexual activity.
- Video: Jane Chen shows how a low-cost, portable incubator could save the lives of millions of infants in developing nations.
- The new model: Submit your Super Bowl ad, respond in outrage after it's rejected, get more publicity than the ad would have generated.
- New Orleans will love Archie Manning, no matter what his son may do; the Super Bowl trip is the best thing that has ever happened to the city.
- A visit to Next Media's Taipei offices, where animators reenact the news the cameras can't capture.
- TMN is looking for a winter intern who can give this headline more of a hook.
- A Q&A with the Marxist professor accidentally responsible for Texas banning Brown Bear, Brown Bear.
- Plenty of teenagers still love Catcher in the Rye. In fact, my Facebook feed was full of tributes to Salinger the day he died.
- Recalling a bad idea to visit Salinger and demand he turn over everything he'd written since 1965.
- I've never regretted stopping when I did. An interview with Bill Watterson, reclusive Calvin and Hobbes creator.
- Former company man who vouched for waterboarding now retracts claim.
- Arenas: If I steer just one young person away from violence, then I'm living up to Abe Pollin's legacy.
- How Davos is like a magazine cover: by the time a trend percolates up, its time has already past.
- Data shows that modern college-educated women are more likely to be married at 40, more likely to describe their marriages as "happy."
- Little Sweetie's billions won't go to the feng shui master who gave her love and a $6,500 head rub.
- Pratchett: I would like to die peacefully before [Alzheimer's] takes me over.
- Video analysis of the forces involved in an aerial skiier's "double full full full."
- Instapaper for the commute: How to survive a fall from 35,000 feet.
- Brief history of the modern use of executed people's blood to treat epilepsy.
- So people in 2010 are dicks? Nerd informs 1990 self about the iPad, Obama, and cynicism.
- Interactive graphic defines associations between colors and words.
- Bartenders tell TMN's Clay Risen about the most commonly mispronounced drinks.
- Explanation of the "surprisingly helpful" theory that we all live in a giant cosmic hologram.
- Audio: The sound of Saturn's rings.
- Ze Frank's "Pain Pack": messages of hurting transformed into song.
- English writer awarded grant to use sheep to make poems.