7 December 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 07 Dec 2009 Einstein meets Hippocrates: Profile of a system so smart it can (almost) model human drug trials without humans. News you can use: Analysis of how to assess a Tiger's damage to a tree. More efficient aviation might result if passenger jets flew in bird-like convoys. Bird feeders may have contributed to an entire bird species' evolution. Global warming threatens to quash longstanding Dutch skating tradition. Signs in Copenhagen of at least a preliminary deal. Photos: Cities prior to and after catastrophe. How to overcome the dearth of export infrastructure in moving Cincinnati chili outside of Cincinnati. Op: The challenges of the 21st century make this a wonderfully difficult time to be an arts critic. When to get your MFA, or not, part one; part two. Index of the best comics of the '00s; illustrated history of the paper clip. Account of how Tom McCarthy's Remainder got its American cover without any digital tricks. Swedes sell first jeans produced in North Korea, where jeans are banned. Roundup of prison mutinies caused by small pancakes, booze, inadequate bathrooms.