16 December 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 16 Dec 2009 Mr. Berlusconi's office denied reports that he doodled pictures of women's underwear in climate talks. U.K. report of Berlusconi dust-up. Interview with Daniel Lippman, secret 19-year-old copyeditor and fact-checker for D.C.'s press corps. RIP Giorgio Carbone, elected prince of the self-declared principality of Seborga. How to start your own country in four easy steps. Secretive scholars of the Old South meet to contemplate secession and appreciate white people. Lots about E. E. Evans-Pritchard: one of the first anthropologists "to understand other cultural beliefs as a coherent system." Chart showing anyone who ever lived and died. New postmortem preservation: Turn your ashes into a lifetime supply of pencils for loved ones. Various ways and algorithms for representing Earth's surface. Best astronomy photos of 2009, with high-quality captions. TMN's Andrew Womack and others pick the best new blogs of the year. The more data we accumulate about drug harmfulness, the more the classification systems need to be dismantled. The shock of the Woods scandal is largely a testament to the power of the fundamental attribution error. The best jazz albums of 2009, samples included. The scripts (all 97 of them) that Hollywood liked the most in 2009.
