8 December 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 08 Dec 2009 Two days later, we only now finished reading this: How a real decider operates. Guardian leads charge with climate-change op-ed published in 56 newspapers; no top U.S. paper joins in. Op: Regarding Copenhagen, politicians ignore physics, planets don't. More than 20 percent of U.S. drinking water in the last five years contained illegal chemical concentrations. We knew something strange was happening. Hunters and scientists talk about climate change. Chart shows what online sources say about beliefs held by climate-change skeptics (plus their rebuttals). Interactive graphic: The Milky Way at distinct wavelengths. Study: Medically trained clowns can alleviate preoperative anxiety among children undergoing surgery. Study finds 98 percent of children under the age of 10 are remorseless sociopaths. Scientists puzzled about why so much stuff is round. Signifiers debated of Neolithic cannibalism in Europe. Germans name Sunday the most depressing day of the week; Americans agree. "Ice-creaming" is like "dogfooding," only nicer; this is also "ice-creaming." "The 94 Best Philip Larkin Poems, In Order." Top translators pick top books that should be published in English.
