16 January 2008: Afternoon By The Morning News — 16 Jan 2008 What did we learn about Romney's success in Michigan? Pandering works. On one side, the green movement, and on the other, the anti-poverty types. In the middle? The Nano. Can the web make Broadway popular with the (hopefully young) masses? Will Ferrell quietly touring Broadway stages. It is ironic, but true: The one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. Why to choose a common disease, in economic terms, if you don't want to die. Print for the commute: When foreign wars cause disasters at home. Biographies of women mathematicians. Birnbaum does his best long-form style with author Arthur Phillips (Prague, etc.). In today's Mp3 Digest, Llew Hinkes does his best to point out where all the year-end best-of lists went wrong. Speaking of wrong: Yesterday's "separated twins accidently getting hitched" story was probably too good to be true. But it is true that a "pair of homeschooled evangelical twin teen prodigies" are a major force behind Mike Huckabee's success. US's baby boomlet tells us what you were doing in the summer of 2005. When ferrets become the subject of romance and plagiarism. Egyptians trade the stress of marriage for the fun of single life. Fun to look at: in-flight meals, abandoned brain lab. Fun to download: 17 sensational free graphic novels.
