Headlines from February 11, 2010
- Wife of Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi attacked by police.
- Guide to the core and periphery of al Qaeda.
- "Businessmen haved captured the state and the minds of the people who run it."
- Company receives $3 million to turn carbon into baking soda; lots of jokes about "raining pancakes."
- Legal precedent seems to be on the side of Neanderthal human rights. If cavemen walk again, they'll start in Connecticut.
- "Inuk just got cracked," or, first ancient genome sample thoroughly sequenced.
- Scientists pinpoint the brain area responsible for the fear of losing money.
- Long-exposure photos of moths drawn to light.
- The "I Heart Conan" contest challenges you to remember his sketch characters.
- Op: Pop culture promotes bizarre ideas of expertise, so that Palin may write "with sensitivity and affection."
- In the global literary market, Shakespeare would have eased off the puns.
- Scenes, images, and notes from dystopia.
- It is 316 times harder to kill 100 people than it is to kill 10 people. Characteristics that define "open-source warfare."
- Analysis of Obama's three gambles to defuse Iran: moving China, holding Israel, and sanctions.
- Woman in Oxford uses Twitter to direct rebellion in Iran; Ahmadinejad fights back with propaganda.
- Egyptian religious leaders push back against mosque surveillance cameras.
- Traders react positively to news that the E.U. will bail out Greece.
- Op: To solve its budget woes, nation-state California should join the E.U.
- Drawings of members of the U.S. Senate.
- How to make a small-scale, super-realistic model landscape.
- How to improve the workday: The Russian Roulette Chair.
- New police helicopter photos released of the World Trade Center attack (see samples).
- New study analyzes the quality of food product placement in the movies.
- Video: Domestic Robocop.
- It is evidence of civilization and its discontents. History of the condom.
- Kindle readers react to higher e-book prices by punishing authors' book reviews.
- Diary appears that inspired names, details, and events in Faulkner's fiction.
- Examples of extremely intricate timelines of things.
Where were you the day you learned John Mayer has a racist penis?