December 20, 2012: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Obama vows swift action on gun control; Republicans stick to NRA talking point, saying now is not the time.
- Details about recent cases and lives lost to guns in Tennessee, Kansas, Nevada, Alabama, and Missouri.
- The view from Germany: [Newtown] was no uncontrollable natural disaster.
- Professor tweets about wanting NRA chief's head on a stick, drawing fire from pundits, the state, and his employer.
- Teachers can learn from profane evaluations, if only to help students' self-destruction.
- Zadie Smith on the differences between pleasure and joy.
- Interview with Brooklyn residents who are bringing back chamberpots in order to save on rent.
- Twenty-one British-people problems culled from Reddit.
- American society needs dietary seat belts—after all, seat belts save lives.
- Your culinary Thursday poem: "On Cooking a Symbol at 400 Degrees."
- This is what happens when you give lots of stickers to lots of children.
- Studies find the effects of positive online reviews linger, but the influence of negative reviews wears off.
- TMN's Andrew Womack on the year's 10 best pop albums.
- Why humans explore: genetics, long childhoods, and exploration's "self-reinforcing loop."
