11 September 2008: Morning

  • Archive: Terror attacks hit U.S.
  • A third of Mexico and a quarter of Germany think the U.S. government was behind Sept. 11.
  • Palin's touted pipeline is years from federal approval, at least a decade from completion--if never finished, it could cost Alaska up to $500 million.
  • Robert Gates: We are in the endgame in Iraq.
  • Op: If digital technologies are a contributing factor to "stupidity," perhaps it's because we've been buying laptops, not investing in teachers.
  • Interactive graphic shows what our international neighbors are buying.
  • Graphic shows how much of Wagner or Tolstoy you could consume each year, depending on how much you sit in traffic.
  • TMN's Anthony Doerr: What if all the animals migrating past us every year left behind traces of their routes?
  • As the BBC sends a container around the world, maps of connections reveal much more than our geographical borders.
  • Planetary engineering to avert climate change is as sensible as shooting CO2 out of the atmosphere using radio waves and lasers--which one day may be our only option.
  • "When people do the right things, fish come back. Species populations rebound." But if we lose the fish, we lose a culture reliant on beings other than ourselves.
  • At the dawn of Google's 10th year we learn of its plans for floating data centers powered by wind and sea--cheap, with no red tape.
  • When people worldwide went online en-masse to research the green glow in the skies after the Even Larger Hadron Collider experiment in 2011, Google.com wasn't available.