7 January 2011: Weekend
By The Morning News
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How an insurance company let a teenager die, then spared no expense to save itself.
White House orders Pentagon to cut budgets, likely to result in the first troop reductions since the end of the Cold War.
Romanian witches use dead dogs, excrement to cast tax-repelling spell.
It turns out hate for Comic Sans is misguided--the font can actually help people learn better.
Spamming declines, as the world's largest spam operation goes dark--though no one is sure why or how long it will last.
From water-powered clocks to the headline-making iPhone glitch, we've been time-machine slaves for centuries.
Primer on genetic screening, test interpretation, and why one day we'll all know each other's genomes.
Fully discredited vaccination-autism study now proved fraudulent.
Related: In 2008, for the first time in 14 years, measles was declared endemic in England and Wales.
The chick sexer, whose job is to identify and remove males, is the overlooked savior of a hatchery.
Video: Michael Caine does his Michael Caine impression; see also: Coogan and Brydon do Caine.
This weekend's Packers-Eagles matchup recalls when the teams met 50 years ago--the only playoff game Vince Lombardi ever lost.
A trip to Colin Meloy's Oregon farmhouse, where recording the Decemberists' new album got the better of his crop plans.
Kickstarters: "Mi Peñita Negra"; Sing to Me: Lake Michigan; Gypsé Eyes Magazine.
Fully validated Kanye West retires to quiet farm in Iowa.
This darkness, which is the only way I can describe it, has followed me like a fog. Joel Johnson posts Bill Zeller's final letter.
Obituary for Hendrik Coetzee, kayaker of Africa killed by crocodile.
Video: French children try to identify old technology.
