* Today Syria disconnected from the internet. * Another hardship for coastal residents in New York and New Jersey: mandatory flood insurance. * Climate change in the kitchen. * Tumblr of the day: Eating Carefully. * They're convinced that it just so happens that their self-interest coincides perfectly with the collective interest.
* On Monday, New York City passed a day without a single report of a person being subject to violent crime. * Time-lapse movie of leaves changing color in Central Park. * Mitt Romney to eat lunch at the White House today. * Slightly awkward WikiHow guide to filling awkward silences. * Moscow court
* By the numbers: Hurricane Katrina versus post-tropical cyclone Sandy. * Sea levels rising faster than earlier projections. * Mapmakers delete an island that never existed and whose origins date to 1875. * If every U.S. state declared war against the others, which would win? * Painful memories surface while raising an Irgun
* Obama launches PR campaign to avoid the fiscal cliff, escalating an already tense negotiating atmosphere. * Anti-semitism of senior Hungarian politician viewed as "old school" compared to more contemporary hatred of Islam and immigrants. * Tales from the contemporary American West, where extreme weather is a killer. * Dog-sledding
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* Despite national losses, Republicans won supermajorities in statehouses across the South and Great Plains. * Don't believe Call of Duty: There won't be a cold war between China and the U.S. over rare earth minerals. * China's Communist Party newspaper congratulates Kim Jong-un on
* U.S. fiscal cliff and eurozone debt crisis viewed as biggest risks to the global economy. * Afghanistan veteran learns how to use a prosthetic arm. * Israel Defense Forces' PR rep poses in blackface, calling it "Obama style." * Colbert on the biggest problem with Homeland: Everyone gets terrific
* Interactive: See which U.S. metro coastal areas may someday be underwater. * A result of fossil fuel burning, ocean acidification is withering the marine food chain. * British code breakers can't crack a handwritten message found on a WWII carrier pigeon. * The idea of a New York City mayoral
* Congo again slips into chaos and war, though ruthless rebels prove to be capable administrators. * Portraits of Sandy survivors in storm-ravaged Staten Island. * Whether in 50 or 100 or 200 years, there’s a good chance that New York City will sink beneath the sea. * Considering overpopulation and the
* Rubio not so deftly dodges a creationism question—just like Sen. Barack Obama once did. * Obama campaign adviser explains our broken voting system and why you had to wait in line for eight hours. * As domestic U.S. flights are cut en masse, the best solution is more competition: Let
