Headlines from January 16, 2013

Obama announces gun control measures: assault weapons ban, high-capacity magazine limits, expanded background checks.
Sixteen years after former vagrant Steve Stockman was elected to Congress, he’s back and bringing the crazy to the gun debate. #opinions
The Edge releases the answers to this year’s annual question: “What Should We Be Worried About?”
A classical composer looks back at the works that helped release him from the grips of depression. #music
This bears repeating: Facebook’s search product was led by two ex-Googlers. What the Facebook Graph Search really means. #longreads
Libyan video-gamers compete in the nation’s first open qualifier tournament for the Electronic Sports World Cup.
In the developing world, by contrast, children raised by a single parent are just as likely—in some cases more likely—to succeed.
How a shoestring-budget film about Katrina became the Oscar-nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild. #movies
A closer look at how much caffeine it would take to kill you and the most lethal beverages.
The Brooklyn Museum faces legal roadblocks in trying to remove items determined to be fakes or of poor quality.
Supreme Court upholds state laws dictating that houseboats that don’t travel are subject to local—not marine—law.
Religious leaders protest in Washington, saying politicians can’t be relied upon to save us from climate change.
Survey of economists finds broad agreement that politicians can’t be trusted with the debt ceiling.
Democrats and Republicans say there’s virtually no chance they’ll pass gun-control legislation.
After learning that guns at home are 43 times more likely to kill a family member than to be used in self-defense, the NRA killed funds for gun-violence research.
Now that the fight has begun, the NRA uses Obama’s children in a political ad.
FYI: Widespread gun ownership doesn’t translate into toppling oppressive governments, and Hitler wasn’t aided by gun-control laws.
Conspiracy theorists who believe the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax begin harassing Newtown residents.
Glitch with at least one cellphone company directs people with missing phones to one man’s home in Las Vegas.
Fascinating pictures of illegal, makeshift oil refineries in Nigeria. #photography
One sign that Johannesburg is becoming an agreeably cosmopolitan city: Complaints about an excess of urban hipsters.
Chronicler of hipsters attacks those who would bash them. #opinions #tmn
“Really Hip 90-Year-Old Figures He Has Every Right To Torrent Glenn Miller’s ‘In The Mood.’”
Poems of Allen’s Ginsberg’s father, Louis, came weekly over the transom and were returned to New Jersey with a rejection slip. Reminiscences of early days at the New York Review of Books.
Sports story of the day: The intertwined basketball careers of Rasheed Wallace and Jerry Stackhouse.
Very funny bad lip-reading of NFL players, coaches, and officials. #video
Matthew Barney designs a skateboard with a graphite tip, and skating legend Lance Mountain rides it around Detroit. #video
American single-malt whiskey beats Scottish competition in a contest judged by British spirits experts.