December 11, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Spending earned political capital in a new way, Obama's "permacampaign" could change Washington from the outside.
- The UN wants control of the internet to ensure member nations' security—but it's not possible.
- Afghan design student creates wind-powered spheres that detonate land mines.
- HSBC to pay $1.92 billion in money-laundering settlement over money transfers for U.S.-sanctioned nations, Mexican drug cartels.
- Dept. of Justice may sue Lance Armstrong.
- When the going gets tough, you need to reach down and find those obscure, untested, oxygen-boosting drugs nobody has ever heard of.
- Interactive map depicts Westchester County if African-American households were near white households of the same income.
- So surprising that at first researchers didn't believe it: signs the childhood obesity epidemic may be reversing.
- The power of negative thinking.
- How to determine whether you're living in a computer simulation.
- Subject parks at a lookout point, presenting with several symptoms including sweating, hand tremors and global rigidity.
- Related: A writer journeys to the wild to confront her panic attacks.
- The Smiths: band of the century or band of the millennium?
- From "Amercia" to "crypto-fascists," 2012's most memorable typos and corrections.
- On Eugene Ionesco's little-known career as a children's book writer.
- The long history of novelists' co-authors.
- Krugman pays homage to Asimov's Foundation trilogy, whose lessons can still be applied.
- Looking for ways to turn down human-made ocean noise, NOAA develops massive sound maps.
- Frank Ocean sings Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees."
- As many as 12 million people around the world are not citizens of any country.
