2 March 2010: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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We're back to studying events around the Black Sea to understand current events.
The Winter Olympics are becoming more diverse, just keeping pace with the Summer Olympics.
Nothing in Pakistan happens except at the instigation of one of the three A's: Allah, the army, or America.
Yesterday's Koons article in the Times was a PR coup for the New Museum; Koons, meanwhile, still sounds bizarre-o.
Instapaper for the commute: Krugman, Krugman, Krugman.
The terrifying "last four minutes of Air France Flight 447."
The terrifying, devastating attack of the Ug99 fungus.
For sale: The Open Laboratory ("showcasing the quality and diversity of science writing on blogs in 2009").
Redesigning the hot dog.
Brigham Young's rules and filing procedures for growing a beard.
District attorneys and children's advocacy groups said to agree about sexting: "hard-charging laws can do real damage."
The state itself is the greatest villain. Accounting for Stieg Larsson.
Fantastic: Authors of Logicomix, a candidate for this year's Rooster, pay tribute to Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Microscopic origami; typographic artifacts of New York City.
Video: A miniature day in New York.