Headlines from February 6, 2013
- The sum of the parts amounts to a recipe for legally sanctioned error and abuse. Picking apart the case for drones against Americans.
- The presence of armed drones in Germany’s arsenal would come in handy the next time a NATO ally requests backup.
- How the Taliban is using promises of sex as a tool for recruitment.
- Ted Cruz of Texas is now the only senator who has been on the losing side of every vote this term. #politics
- In the 1900s, utopian settlers created Blacktown, a short-lived settlement of African Americans in New Mexico.
- Related: An artist imagines families surviving the Great Depression raising children and farming homesteads—in the absence of men. #tmn
- Images and videos from a computer model depicting the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. via
- Erik Bryan walks through Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, site of two of the largest World’s Fairs ever. #tmn
- A flight attendant explains his superhero-themed phonetic alphabet.
- I thought for a moment about how long it took for Shields to make this music, and then how much longer it took him to make peace with it.
- While the rest of us are generally content to hear sound, Eno can clearly see it. Laurie Anderson interviews Brian Eno.
- Deep beneath Italy’s Gran Sasso mountains, shielded from cosmic rays, scientists try to solve the mysteries of dark matter.
- Hollywood can’t get enough of distracted people being hit by buses. #video
- French claim killing “hundreds” of Islamist militants in Mali ahead of next month’s withdrawal.
- Confidential memo says the U.S. can kill American citizens if they’re believed to be senior members of al-Qaida or an “associated force.”
- North Korea releases video showing nuclear destruction of America set to strains of “We Are the World.”
- Thirty-year-old owner of In-N-Out Burger becomes one of the world’s youngest female billionaires.
- Photographs of art gallery employees who happen to resemble the art they’re selling. #tmn
- See also: Three pictures of people blending into their surroundings. #photography
- When scientists are quoted discussing “evil” and “central lobes,” the science article in question is likely crap.
- Psychology supports GTD—the importance of having a good plan for when and how to do our tasks.
- More than half of current Facebook users say they’ve taken a break from Facebook for a period of several weeks or more.
- Chicago comedian kicked off OKCupid for not being two kids in a long trench coat posing as an adult.
- Give yourself extra time to cook. Food editor goes vegan for a month, offering tips and recipes.
- It’s faster to send a few hundred gigabytes of data via FedEx than over the internet, and that may never change.
- New Radiolab episode, “Speed,” includes segment on high-speed trading. #audio
- Financial experts complain about China’s highly suspicious economic numbers.
- Discovery of melanosomes in dinosaur feathers allows scientists to begin coloring in polychromatic species.