16 January 2009: Weekend
By The Morning News
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Exclusive, secret Wall Street fraternity hosts black-tie dinner, sings "Bye, bye to my piece of the pie."
Consider the trope: Linguistic history of a science-writing cliche.
If the war on science is over, we're now entering the postwar phase of reconstruction.
Ways for ex-President Bush to be the best ex-President he can be.
Golf was not Obama's first sport, but he plays with integrity, and he likes to gamble.
On the art of the inaugural poem and the anxiety of producing "an occasional poem."
Letters from young Navajos to President Obama.
Obedience test examines how easily we all could become Nazis.
In South Korea, financial blogger "Minerva" is arrested for slandering the government.
Boro boro fashion--fondness for the faded and torn--predicted to gain ground during crisis.
Photos of sleeping Chinese people.
This sentence is short, not because it is brief--which it is--but
because it has few words. Colson Whitehead teaches us how to read.
"My
Day, Yesterday," a full day edited down to 90 seconds of video (more here).
Accounts of some of the passengers and witnesses from yesterday's Hudson River plane crash.
Survey of London's professional darkrooms.
