Headlines from January 29, 2013

Since the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, 1,318 people killed by gun violence.
Israel admits it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent.
Union membership is at a 97-year low in the United States: 11.3 percent.
Rapper Rick Ross, whose act is pretending to be a gangster, sued by real gangster Rick Ross who’d like his name back.
Learning from New Guineans on how to become “constructively paranoid” about showers, stepladders, and staircases.
Like colleges, airports see customers as powerless transients. Ten things that learned from what airports are doing wrong.
Hepola: If the bottom is the engine of a body, then Dallas is full of Ferraris.
Bad jokes loved by children—e.g., why are chickens growing out of my head? Because you ate too much chicken.
Tips on surviving the baby that wants to break up your modern, loving relationship.
Climbing couple’s diary and photographs from a recent summit of Fitz Roy in Patagonia.
Despite its military success, France’s go-it-alone approach in Mali spells grim news for Europe’s future. #opinions
City of Dijon sells off half its prized municipal wine cellar to help fund local social spending.
Uproar in France after Sarkozy’s son gets law professor job at top Paris university before finishing his own law studies.
France bans term “hashtag” in favor of mot-diese, which means “hashtag-word.”
British ministers consider negative advertising campaign in Bulgaria and Romania to persuade potential immigrants to stay away.
Britain’s leaky buildings are responsible for 40% of the country’s greenhouse-gas emissions.
Man rides entire LA Metro in a single day.
List of painters to watch this year reflects “this current moment in painting.”
Metallica calculates it will make more money from streaming than CD sales when Spotify reaches 20 million subscribers.
It becomes every day less possible to fool any of the people any of the time. Thomas Pynchon in 1984 on whether it’s OK to be a Luddite.
Music critic Alex Ross briefly name-checks lesser-known classical quartets to watch.
Photographs from behind the scenes of the Vienna’s Museum of Natural History.
“European Spider of the Year 2012” goes to Meta menardi, large cave spider. via
See also: X-rays of art from the collections of the Getty Museum and San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum. #photography #tmn