Headlines from January 22, 2013
- A young reporter who has covered only President Obama’s first term has already witnessed several political epochs. #opinions
- I just want to take a moment to thank all of the foreign campaign donors. How conspiracy theorists heard the inaugural speech.
- A timeline of Lupe Fiasco’s obsession with conspiracy theories.
- LED bulbs’ durability threatens manufacturer profits: Long-lasting bulbs reduce the need to replace as frequently. #technology
- California makes it easier for amateur inventors to sell homemade products at major retailers.
- Researchers in Senegal hope that reintroducing prawns to the nation’s rivers will reduce the number of snails that host a dangerous parasite.
- A number of farmers in Brazil have swapped chemicals for wasps. Fighting nature with nature: the new era of pesticides.
- Prior to Jan. 22, 1973, the probes and poisons women used to induce abortion. #health
- Today at TMN, Graham T. Beck recalls looking for a bear—and then he found a bear. #nature
- Point-by-point legal analysis of Bilbo Baggins’s contract in The Hobbit.
- Turns out it’s the wrong maple leaf on the new Canadian dollar bills.
- Belgians celebrate the Manneken Pis, the statue of a little boy peeing that has become a national monument.
- The pun, though been reviled since Enlightenment days, has a history dating back to Jesus. #jokes
- Obama’s speech readies nation for February’s state-of-the-union address by putting climate change center stage.
- Studies to measure fracking’s effects on public health are unavailable because pro-business state governments won’t fund them.
- “In Focus” selection of photographs from the second inauguration.
- Nate Silver: Judging by the growth of government spending, America has become the world’s largest insurance broker.
- Jill Lepore on our massive military spending and the government’s deference to Defense. #longreads
- Anti-austerity media darling in Portugal found to be complete fraud.
- Guide for southern Europeans on how to be Swedish, including “light candles with every meal.”
- Nowegian girl says she’ll sleep with boy if he gets one million “likes” on Facebook; current tally: 1.2 million.
- Boyfriends-for-rent available to young women going home to face grilling from older relatives during the Chinese new year.
- Life science will co-opt almost every other field of manufacturing. Harvard scientist says we should clone Neanderthals in order to add greater diversity to society.
- First use of a speech prosthesis in history: Man uses computer to order pizza in 1974. #video
- Realistic office settings constructed from paper.
- Production notes on the movie filmed entirely in Disney parks (without permission) now playing at Sundance; actors kept their scripts on smartphones.
- Related: Scene from the movie, Escape From Tomorrow.
- Former houseboy Kevin Guilfoile on why buttons are sewed on the wrong sides of women’s shirts. #tmn
- New science about the traumatic period known as high school, when self-image becomes especially adhesive, as do our preferences.