Headlines from February 2, 2010

The rat says so: Punxsutawney Phil predicts six more weeks of winter.
Al Qaeda dropouts may provide the key to radicalism.
Scientists create possible nuclear-waste-eating Venus flytrap.
Choire Sicha offers the most accurate review possible of When in Rome.
A new kind abstinence-only program--it doesn't preach morality or marriage--has actually diminished rates of teen sexual activity.
Video: Jane Chen shows how a low-cost, portable incubator could save the lives of millions of infants in developing nations.
The new model: Submit your Super Bowl ad, respond in outrage after it's rejected, get more publicity than the ad would have generated.
New Orleans will love Archie Manning, no matter what his son may do; the Super Bowl trip is the best thing that has ever happened to the city.
A visit to Next Media's Taipei offices, where animators reenact the news the cameras can't capture.
TMN is looking for a winter intern who can give this headline more of a hook.
A Q&A with the Marxist professor accidentally responsible for Texas banning Brown Bear, Brown Bear.
Plenty of teenagers still love Catcher in the Rye. In fact, my Facebook feed was full of tributes to Salinger the day he died.
Recalling a bad idea to visit Salinger and demand he turn over everything he'd written since 1965.
I've never regretted stopping when I did. An interview with Bill Watterson, reclusive Calvin and Hobbes creator.
Former company man who vouched for waterboarding now retracts claim.
Arenas: If I steer just one young person away from violence, then I'm living up to Abe Pollin's legacy.
How Davos is like a magazine cover: by the time a trend percolates up, its time has already past.
Data shows that modern college-educated women are more likely to be married at 40, more likely to describe their marriages as "happy."
Little Sweetie's billions won't go to the feng shui master who gave her love and a $6,500 head rub.
Pratchett: I would like to die peacefully before [Alzheimer's] takes me over.
Video analysis of the forces involved in an aerial skiier's "double full full full."
Instapaper for the commute: How to survive a fall from 35,000 feet.
Brief history of the modern use of executed people's blood to treat epilepsy.
So people in 2010 are dicks? Nerd informs 1990 self about the iPad, Obama, and cynicism.
Interactive graphic defines associations between colors and words.
Bartenders tell TMN's Clay Risen about the most commonly mispronounced drinks.
Explanation of the "surprisingly helpful" theory that we all live in a giant cosmic hologram.
Audio: The sound of Saturn's rings.
Ze Frank's "Pain Pack": messages of hurting transformed into song.
English writer awarded grant to use sheep to make poems.