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Headlines for Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Afternoon Edition

Bush is back, this time as a softshoe motivational speaker.

Op: Torturing dogs or humans engenders compliance, not truth-telling.

Comedian jokes about amputee soldiers; pols and editors outraged on soldiers’ behalf; soldiers laugh, distrust pompous pols and editors.

Political activists fulminate because it provides “so many of the requirements for human happiness.”

The science of rug wrinkles: moving bumps travel at around one meter per second.

Mushroom-hunting urban-dwelling Russians get lost in the woods this time of year.

Op: Every Indian novelist is a kind of translator.

Google street view of Paris as modern photography.

Chart of the world’s various internet speeds and costs.

From the perspective of science, there isn’t—and has never been—anything natural about farming.

Whole Earth founder praises cities and genetically modified crops.

Blog dedicated to 19-century dust jackets.

Videos: Kuroshio Sea; Rémi is a bat; Star Wars: Uncut.

Photos of New York’s waterfront.

In case you need to know: How many people are in space right now?

The more exclamation points used in an email, the more likely it is a complete lie. 10 natural laws of the internet.

Morning Edition

Ex-A.I.G. chief builds a competitor that may impact A.I.G.’s means to repay taxpayers.

Interview with a man who trains rats to detect landmines.

Dementia experts dismiss N.F.L.’s future analysis of players’ cognitive decline.

Numerical evidence proves Derek Jeter is in fact a horrible shortshop.

A modern history of neuroscience.

How a man built a replica of a Pan Am first-class cabin in his garage (see photos).

A submersible boat can be yours for $165,000.

After publishing his Law of Universal Gravitation in 1687, Newton devised a novel way to demonstrate his concept to the public. Other notable balloons.

Writer visits a libertarian seastead off the coast of California, finds giant floating bubbles, soundtrack of New Wave hits.

For this month’s “Of Recent Note,” tell us about the first time you saw a horror movie.

Color photography from Russia in the early 1900s.

Obama’s war on Fox News is nothing compared to F.D.R.’s rage against newspapers in the 1930s.

A graphic history of newspaper circulation since 1990 depicts unpleasant dives.

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