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Headlines from January 17, 2013
- We may have killed bin Laden, but we don’t have a room to speak in. Oral history of Obama’s first term.
- On Friday, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah made history when he named 30 women to the kingdom’s Shura Council.
- More lethal than drones are drones that can make their own decisions—what we can expect when they reach the battlefield.
- Related: Construct a Terminator Robot by 2017 and other rejected White House petitions. #tmn
- A musical adapted from the 1997 documentary Hands on a Hardbody is set to open on Broadway in March.
- A maintenance worker was stabbed to death for daring to cross a picket line. Recalling New York’s 1979 city-wide strikes.
- Vincent Sombrotto, the letter carrier who led the 1970 nationwide post-office strike, dies at 89.
- Smoke bomb your lungs. How they treated the flu in olden times.
- To cure severe intestinal infections, feces transplants from healthy donors may be the answer.
- In the wonderland of biotechnology, bacteria is beautiful, moss is electric and decorative tiles are animated.
- Consider wearing a good-fitting mask, with no gaps around the nose or mouth, in public. The flu-humidity relationship.
- Researchers shock crabs to learn more about their pain perception, encourage people to be kind to seafood.
- Mammoth Cave reports detection of a fungus that has killed six million bats in North America since 2006. #animals
- Inspired by the blogger-meets-pop-musician story on TMN, semi-fictional stories about meeting Richard Marx. #celebrities
- Kicking off a new series by Kevin Fanning at TMN: “The Impossible Expectations for Kim & Kanye’s Baby.” #tmn
- Lucid summary of the crisis in Mali, France’s intervention, and neighbors’ reactions.
- Gun groups threaten to oust, “with both barrels,” any Democratic senators who vote to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
- Prime minister explains how Australians banned assault weapons and dramatically improved their country.
- Responses from evangelicals, mayors, and children to Obama’s proposals to curb gun violence.
- On TV, murder is frequent, committed by strangers or serial killers, and absolutely nothing like it is in real life.
- There isn’t a single Chinese restaurant in New York with red walls, says location scout, and that makes directors very, very angry.
- Round-up of 12 “must-see” painting shows in January.
- The Tournament of Books is coming soon; vote now for your favorite title in our Zombie poll. #tmn
- New Orleans tour guide argues for more and longer walking, and not just between airport gates.
- Even in trustworthy pages, health stories are routinely unreliable because journalists aren’t skeptical enough of scientists.
- Unlike the rest of us, there’s a lot that doctors won’t do to save their own lives. #audio
- The very confusing story of Manti Te’o, Notre Dame linebacker, and his non-existent dead girlfriend.
- SoulCycle’s spin classes are said to be cult-like—and the process of becoming an instructor there seems to be equally intense.