18 December 2009: Weekend
By The Morning News
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Iceberg larger than Manhattan breaks from Antarctica, heads for Australia.
Related: Man attempts to crowdsurf Manhattan today (follow progress here).
"Who's on First" meets environmental disaster when an oil tanker's front falls off.
Slideshow looks at which tiny island nations compose the Alliance of Small Island States.
Chinese ensure chaos in Copenhagen as paper gets muddled; analysis of leaked draft.
Video: Thom Yorke on Copenhagen: It's all about passing the buck.
Notes on the unprecedented growth seen in big nations investing in struggling countries' farmland.
Protestors once took their campaigns seriously; in Denmark, it's the messengers, not the message.
Sixteen-foot-long Nazi sign, "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free), stolen from Auschwitz.
Mass graves, madness, constant influx of new weapons: a summary of southern Sudan.
Mathematical model proposes common underlying patterns of behavior in insurgencies.
Dawkins: Darwin's achievement doesn't seem all that difficult--why did it elude Aristotle, and everybody else?
Stunning pictures of trees; the decade in corporate signage.
Scientists find that authors write with identifiable, physical linguistic fingerprints.
In 1949, Graham Greene entered a Graham Greene parody contest; he placed second.
Video: The future of magazines may (hopefully) look something like Mag+.
Pogue proposes an experiment for publishers: Release a non-protected Kindle/Nook book and see if you lose sales.
Audio: "Neurophilosopher" Patricia Churchland discusses mind machinery.
Video: Montage of cinema's enhancement moments, and a perfect soccer ball.
Rogue butchers crop up in Chicago, stuffing meats against health codes.
Op: Jewish songwriters write all the best Christmas songs.
