December 19, 2012: Afternoon
- Obama is Time's person of the year, followed by a 15-year-old girl.
- French psychologist convicted of manslaughter after her patient killed his grandmother.
- Therapist explains what it's like to experience a midlife crisis—as a therapist.
- Picture of the president composing his Newtown speech during his daughter's dress rehearsal.
- Swedish teens form mob, hunt down prey, and trash city streets after being labeled "sluts" on Instagram.
- Small Ohio town wrapped up in rape case where much of the evidence is found in social media.
- What happens on Wikipedia in the aftermath of mass shootings.
- On Facebook, Newtown residents want the media to leave.
- In the wake of a massacre, Australia's gun clampdown was incredibly effective, but it probably won't work here.
- Police in one of the most dangerous places in America—Camden County, NJ—witness a record number of gun buybacks this weekend.
- Despite progress in recent decades, the social norm "men should earn more than their wives" is alive and well.
- Lazy man's guide to seducing women.
- Pictures of art gallerists who resemble the art they sell.
- New York's Waldorf-Astoria will honor wedding-anniversary couples' original room rate if they can produce a receipt.
- Parenting tips from hunter-gatherers, as compared to industrial societies' "rabbit-antelope" pattern.
- Rolling Jubilee mails its first debt-forgiveness letters.
- Highlights from the British Medical Journal's special Christmas edition.
- See also: Why Rudolph's nose is red.