February 12, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- A man...who capped his career by terminating bin Laden, has no landing pad in civilian life.
- The popes who've resigned.
- Odds that the next pope could be from Latin America, home to 40% of the world's Catholics.
- Guilt is our inner police force, but if we give it too much emotional power, we risk turning into a police state.
- Working harder means working less productively.
- Because mice and human physiology is so different, scientists now think decades of deadly disease research may be kaput.
- Employing genetic techniques, researchers find folk tales cross borders more easily than genes.
- Ant pupae can communicate by sound, and their lives depend on being heard by adults.
- Once spoken by more than 100,000 people, the Texas German dialect nears extinction.
- In a new ebook, Jonathan Gourlay spends 11 years living on the microscopic island of Pohnpei.
- Also by Gourlay: "The Day Borders Got the Wobblies."
- The Labrador is the most popular breed in the U.S., but in 136 years of Westminster, it's never won Best in Show.
- Dogs understand us better than previously believed, since they'll steal food in front of us when the lights are out.
- "Searchers of the dead" were corpse-examining helpers who advanced our early understanding of the causes of death.
- Pitchaya Sudbanthad on the history of Pad Thai: "Thus was born the Volksnoodle for an emerging Thai nation-state."
- The NBA enters a new data-tracking era, with half the teams now using ball cameras and performance algorithms.
- Ten NHL early-season surprises.
- Playing [violent video] games can and does stir hostile urges and mildly aggressive behavior in the short term.
