30 March 2009: Morning
By The Morning News
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U.S. Patent Office bans "business-method" patents on ideas rather than implementation.
An explanation of video-game brain-fitness software, its supposed science, and game recommendations.
Study shows playing computer games effectively treats amblyopia, or "lazy eye."
Is there a richer, deeper, more textured universe out there, hiding in plain sight? Timothy Ledwith undergoes eye surgery.
A sharp drop in the diamond trade reverberates, affecting U.S. retailers, drought-ravaged villagers in India, Botswana's entire economy, and Warren Buffett.
In London, rainbow coalition of 35,000 protesters try to sway G20 attention, the preface to Wednesday's "Financial Fools Day" protests.
To coincide with the protests, a spoof edition of the Financial Times hits the London streets.
From this weekend's All Things Considered, Andrew Womack and Rosecrans Baldwin discuss the Tournament of Books.
A potential loss is spun as a potential gain. War is peace. Bubblespeak: How "toxic assets" have become "legacy securities."
On the conception and evolution of William Zinsser's On Writing Well.
Today's long read: "Searching for a Gandhi or a Martin Luther King in the West Bank."
E.T....gave us a being who descended from heaven, cured disease miraculously, and then returned from death. How science fiction gave up politics and found religion.
Celebrity artwork made from unwound cassette tapes.
