Headlines from January 8, 2013
- Some of them don’t even understand they are enslaved because they have been laboring all their lives. Photojournalist captures images of modern slavery.
- If emancipation did in fact begin long before…Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, what changed on that day? #history
- Venezuelan police raid the home of a Twitter user suspected of spreading rumors about Chávez’s health.
- Kuwaiti court sentences man to two years in prison for insulting the ruling emir on Twitter.
- To stop him from playing video games, a father hires virtual assassins to kill his son’s avatar.
- A 17-month simulated mission to Mars leaves Russian crew depleted of energy, oversleeping. #space
- Planetary scientists ask the public to look at images and help identify dust features on the surface of Mars. #science
- Kevin survived, but for the next two days, he was silent. Scientist tests whether his pet canary has musical taste.
- A dome over Midtown, filling in the Hudson, and other plans for New York that never happened.
- Miranda Popkey tells WNPR how when the pressure’s on and the game is on the line, that’s when the kicker walks onto the field. #audio
- Read Popkey’s “End Zone” column on The Morning News. #tmn
- How tea drinking unites and divides conflict-striken Karachi.
- Arguing in favor of tea, Martin Connelly welcomes the latest venture from Starbucks—never mind the purists. #tmn
- It was insanely catchy. How OMD made “Enola Gay.” #music
- White House photographer Pete Souza releases a year of pictures with the First Family.
- Dozens of environmental and health groups urge Obama to finally and firmly address climate change.
- Forced to resign by a financial scandal, Berlusconi is running for office again, this time for finance minister, or even prime minister.
- Why did the Royal Canadian Mint make the world’s purest and largest gold bullion coin? Because we can.
- Tide detergent is now called “liquid gold,” with a 150-ounce bottle going for either $5 cash or $10 worth of weed or crack cocaine.
- Is it always illegal to kill a woman? Sexism in vintage ads.
- Gerard Depardieu performs song with Uzbekistan’s “Single Most Hated Person,” who wants to be a pop star.
- How to pick a husband (according to Myers-Briggs scores) if you want to have children and also a career, or not.
- Washington journalist comes to terms with realizing that he’s a creep—“someone whose isolation has become unmanageable.”
- Bookriot’s Jeff O’Neal handicaps this year’s Tournament of Books.
- See also: Bookriot’s plan to discuss all of the Tournament’s books before March.
- Sony backs Seinfeld’s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” for 24 more episodes.
- To watch an hour-long film made up of 20 three-minute trailers in Portugal, viewers must maneuver their upper bodies into “one of 16 downward-pointing nozzles.”
- Analysis of seven early short films from Albert Brooks, which he produced for television in the early ‘70s.
- Photographs of tiny people drawn on people’s fingers.
- The Millions’ releases its list of anticipated fiction to be published in 2013.