4 December 2009: Weekend By The Morning News — 04 Dec 2009 At least 37 killed in suicide attack at a mosque near Pakistan army headquarters. Op: If we lose in Afghanistan, it will be because "our" Afghans--Karzai & co.--failed to deliver. North Korea quietly does away with currency. There's a very strong intellectual case for saying no bank should pay a bonus for 2009. Said the Gramophone's best of 2009, Alex Ross's 10 exceptional recordings. The sound of a glacier melting played on an ice record. Antarctica may once have been an oasis for life, 250 million years ago. Where evolution goes from here: pleasant primer on the future of natural selection. Head-shaking competitions can lead to your brain bleeding. Study finds negativity and near-despair enhance sports-watching. The science behind why no one can afford to skip rest, and why workaholics are like moles. There goes the workday: the 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia. Instapaper for Saturday morning: The testing of a marriage. Examples of real-life Lichtenstein interiors. Reasons why it may be difficult to find a chocolate bar in China. American men now feel it's appropriate to display their "heavage" with low-cut T-shirts.
