December 20, 2011: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- U.S. rated the world's most charitable country in 2011.
- Mark Thoma demonstrates with a simple game why the great economic divide makes everyone poorer.
- Lehrer: Our theories about cause and effect are inherently perceptual, infected by all the sensory cheats of vision.
- "A slice of soapsuds is a carnival of 120-degree angles."
- Now that everyone is a curator, trained curators discuss "curating" with palpable anxiety.
- Art shows to see in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Wisconsin.
- Also fun to browse: Top 10 U.S. online contemporary art conservation projects from 2011.
- Pictures from the year in volcanoes.
- It's worth remembering that Hitchens was a bully and a mean drunk who filed plenty of bad copy.
- Profile of composers in Hollywood focuses on John Williams, who still writes every note and doesn't read scripts.
- Daughter's tribute to her father, New York cab driver.
- Airing of grievances from the year in technology news.
- For those who toil to win accounts: Saul Bass presents a logo change to AT&T executives.
- Winners of this year's National Geographic Photo Contest.
- Holiday displays, schematics, mechanical animals from yesteryear.
- Poem for the week: "Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind" by Shakespeare.
- Travelers in the southern Rockies and central Plains would probably urge otherwise.
