23 February 2010: Morning By The Morning News — 23 Feb 2010 Why African coups are begun by colonels: They've got enough power, not enough money. The great crisis of the mid-21st century will be a war between the United States and a fearsome Turkish-Japanese alliance. France's air-traffic controllers begin week-long strike to protest integration with other European workers. Instapaper for the commute: Management techniques learned from the Grateful Dead. Sting roasted for playing a private concert "specifically designed to glorify a barbarous regime." Snoop Dogg suprised and baffled by the "unusual lengths" U.K. border officials have pursued to keep him away. Op: Engineers make better terrorists because they can tolerate uncertainty. Profile of Lanham, Md., visited by Obama twice in two weeks. Interview with Chris Jordan about his pictures of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. See also: Gallery of Jordan's numbers in pictures and an interview with Nicole Pasulka. Ellen Langer, responsible for "mindfulness," has made her research into a worldview. Video: Band I Am Un Chien turns Chatroulette session into a music video. On the mysteries of bipolar spieces: Invertebrates found at both ends of the globe and nowhere else. 3D printing goes bio: producing simple tissues for research purposes. Excerpt from the McSweeney's newspaper, in which a playright/attorney learns bankruptcy law on the web.
