February 2, 2012: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Headlines say Obama is on the rebound, but maybe someone should tell swing voters in up-for-grabs states.
- Images of the "Great Successor," Kim Jong Un, looking at things.
- Billions and millions expected for employees and friends of Facebook.
- Q&A on why the nation's largest breast cancer charity cut off funding to Planned Parenthood.
- Notes on life inside Africa's most expensive city, Angola's Luanda.
- Russian scientists on the verge of entering lake that hasn’t been touched by light for more than 20 million years.
- Hemon on the "meticulous segregation" of children in Bosnian schools.
- See also: Zadie Smith on the "Writers Bloc" program.
- On the back of Nathan Englander's blurb-gasm, an examination of where all the hyperbolic puff began.
- Studies: If you want to increase your creativity, lie in bed a little longer.
- Round-up of all items that Jonathan Franzen believes are bad for society.
- Kevin Durant says Blake Griffin dunk was no dunk at all, but a layup.
- Immersive video games used to treat wide variety of psychological disorders, from fear of spiders to germ-related terror.
- Molly Fischer on the blogosphere's lady sites, and why none of them meet women's needs.
- Appreciating the greatest figure in K-pop's history, who wears neither heels nor skirt.
