February 19, 2013: Morning
- Rather than mapping the brain, the Obama administration should solve the brain-behavior connection—the crux of neuroscience.
- The opposite of President's Day: How the world's dictators and monarchs celebrate themselves.
- Like the first laws limiting hours worked, [the minimum wage was] paternalistic in nature, and applied only to women and children.
- Columbia professor introduces the complexity of quantum mechanics by confusing students with performance art.
- Investigators look into the 2012 Australian Olympic swim team's poor showing, find a "toxic" culture of bullying and drugs.
- Ocean acidification caused by carbon dioxide emissions could be putting oysters on the path to extinction.
- In New England, researchers persuade shipping companies to alter routes and reduce ocean noise for whales.
- Strengthening ties with the Union would require the Cherokees to adjust to Lincoln’s new emancipation policies.
- Confirming some historians' beliefs, scientists say Picasso used house paint.
- The man who spent three years painting the same oak tree over and over again explains his process.
- Given a blank map of Manhattan, New Yorkers fill it with what matters most to them.
- Twenty-first-century buildings that look like alien spaceships.
- List of helicopter prison escapes—France tops the list with 11.