1 February 2011: Afternoon By The Morning News — 01 Feb 2011 Crowd estimates varied for Egypt's Tuesday protests; Tahrir Square thought to hold 225,000. Primer: Civil war threat kindled in Ivory Coast; academics urge media to focus on power, not ethnicities. Q&A with Cairo protester: Protesters don't have time for Twitter, web, or TV. South Korea buries animals alive to tackle hoof-and-mouth disease. China rents pandas to zoos for $1 million a pair, plus $600k premium if pandas mate. Portraits of Chinese people with brief answers to questions about China. Google Art Project: bringing "street view" to museums. Google's mission to reinvent philanthropy became a plan to aggregate information about big problems. Tower running: in which people race up skyscrapers. Israeli filmmaker discusses great heist: Palestine book robbery of 1948. Evening video: Documentary on composer Milton Babbitt. Mission to disprove tech-forever theory--i.e., tools never die--seeks submissions. There is also evidence for acute risk factors that trigger a cardiac event. Intense Super Bowl games kill people. World's oldest woman and proud Texan dies at 114. Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her appearance for the worse. Five favorite phrases from Fish.
