11 January 2011: Morning

  • Fabian Nuñez gave employee at the prison in which his son is incarcerated a Kindle, which was immediately returned.
  • From the moment it was introduced in America, end-of-term clemency has remained controversial.
  • TMN's Leah Finnegan considers Loughner's warning signs, explores what Pima could have done differently.
  • Citing damage to farms, farmers group wants to block E.P.A. cleanup of Chesapeake Bay.
  • Thanks to scalp-chilling headgear, a breast cancer patient's mane remains unthinned through six chemo treatments.
  • The day before his cancer treatment begins, a cyclist and his buddies hold a trainer session in his garage.
  • In Seattle, real-life superhero thwarts a carjacking, then returns to his secret HQ in a comic shop.
  • A report finding evidence of ESP may be a product of science's longtime foe: faulty statistical analysis.
  • Today in pop science: buying generic saves money, makes people feel bad.
  • David Brooks uses a growing understanding of consciousness to map a psychological lifetime.
  • From in-vitro fertilization to Dolly, the Frankenstein mythos has hung over science for decades.
  • A new look at the Kubler-Ross scale and the boom in grief counseling it engendered.
  • Modern celebrity gossip can't compare with one of the earliest paranormal sensations: the 1930s talking mongoose.
  • "We don't know what we are supposed to be doing, but we are learning about math." Brooklyn tries 60-student classrooms.
  • Ahead of a biopic on the author and Paris Review co-founder, the Plimpton Book Club launches.