29 February 2008: Afternoon
- Jolie: What we cannot afford, in my view, is to squander the progress that has been made [in Iraq].
- Turkey yanks troops after eight-day fight with Kurdish guerillas--but not because the U.S. said so.
- Clinton's new ad: It's three a.m., your children are safe and sound--but not for long if you vote for Obama.
- Obama's middle name: the H-word only supporters are allowed to say.
- Hey, Americans! Danes! Estonians! Kosovo thanks you!
- Nicole Pasulka looks back on the month in beef news; Meave Gallagher takes a video tour through Castro's rise.
- Idiom shortage leaves nation all sewed up in horse pies.
- Print for the commute: Social networks are like the eye, or, biology and Facebook.
- Finding where Tocqueville's thoughts on poetry and the American jury system intersect.
- Study finds native French speakers don't agree on the genders of French nouns.
- An outsider's view of touring through Montana.
- PDF: "Human Terrain Mapping" in the March/April Military Review.
- Researchers believe that they have identified the cognitive neural substrate of jazz improvisation.
- What happens when you play "The Ultimate Game" with chimps.
- People experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be. Expectations can change the way wine tastes, alter the effectiveness of medication.
- Alter your expectations: Seattle's controversial new landmark: a Denny's.
- Twenty-nine leap facts for February 29th; U.K. leap-year babies; three siblings born on leap year day, in separate years.
- Care to make it interesting: Coudal.com and a bunch of other sites want to buy kids books when you gamble on ToB novels.