February 20, 2013: Afternoon
- To turn Texas blue, Democrats will need a vision of Hispanic voters that goes beyond immigration reform.
- America retains the right of nuclear first use—against nations who don't adhere to various nonproliferation strictures—and it should not.
- Being able to handle life in Israel is one thing; actually wanting to do it is another.
- Photographic analysis of President Obama as a writer and editor.
- Tips on how to get the most out of a handshake, including the "upper-hand," the "double-hander," and the "left-side advantage."
- Drivers hate cyclists not because they're annoying, but because they violate a deep-seated moral order.
- See also: How to not kill a cyclist.
- Hungarian physicist says it only takes 19 clicks to get from here to anywhere else on the internet.
- If you're headed to SXSW, catch TMN's Andrew Womack on publishing long-form work on the web.
- Churchill backed a plan to fight the Nazis from aircraft carriers made of ice that wouldn't melt.
- Pictures of Ghana's Agbogbloshie tech dump—a 21st-century pastoral badlands.
- Top Sherlock scholar wants court to say Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson are no longer protected by federal copyright laws.
- Why does Orwell love it when a poet like Shakespeare renews a reader's sensation of the surface of the earth, but hate it when Big Brother does the same thing to Winston?
- Russia's Babushka Pushkina is a reality-style televised competition for poets.
- I lost my leg because of a preventable error... My work as a physician has been put on hold.
- Louis C.K., "whose tours have become a kind of yearly medical checkup," has become America's Gogol.
- Pitchfork presents hour-long oral history of If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle & Sebastian.