Headlines from December 15, 2009

Beyond rap videos, holding a gun sideways has a longstanding Hollywood--and military--tradition.
Video: From the 1960s, the Porsche build process.
Zaha Hadid's snack-itecture, illustrated.
Most of the Times's 2001 "Year in Ideas" remain relevant; "Selling things yourself in cigarette vending machines" does not.
With a new initiative to scan its body of literary archives, France intends to maintain its cultural heritage into the digital era.
Take stock and tell us your greatest achievement from 2009.
"Seven Habits" author Covey transfers e-publishing rights from Simon & Schuster to Amazon.
He compared the Amazon Kindle and other e-readers to Nazi crematoria for books. The war on e-books.
News of potential subway closures hits especially hard the man who produces exacting accordion maps.
Australian scientists conclude that ripping off a Band-Aid quickly is the least painful method.
Roundup of reasons why Americans are reconsidering global warming.
Livelihood of koalas, clownfish threatened by climate change.
Video: Octopus fashions coconut shells as body armor.
London Times documents show Iran testing a crucial final component of a nuclear bomb.
Military intervention being prepared to prevent Guinea from sliding into war.
The turkey bones yield apocalyptical visions of melting icebergs and Palin/Dobbs in the White House.
The Morgan Freeman chain of command.
Health care companies paying Facebook users in virtual currency to oppose reform.
So far, Copenhagen has succeeded in showing where China and the U.S.--responsible for 40% of greenhouse-gas emissions--disagree.
Fashionable theories of globalization had the effect of blocking the perception of American decline.
Interactive, state-by-state map of death penalty policy.
Recounting the story of H.M., memory science's most significant patient, as his brain travels to California.
The Daily Beast's smartest and dumbest college towns.
Scientists theorize why people speak and sign at the same rate.
Simic: Poetry is read in bed, essays at the desk, newspapers at lunch.
Video of a house decorated to become Christmas Light Hero; audio on how to remix Terry Riley's "In C."
How to properly heat your stainless steel pans.
TMN's Clay Risen on the future of American craft beer.