February 4, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Since President Obama took office, the U.S. has executed more than 300 covert drone attacks in Pakistan; now the drones are coming home.
- Worth remembering: If Canada exploits its tar sands' oil, and we do nothing, it will be game over for the climate.
- In New York, 65% support new gun-control legislation, the nation's toughest.
- Study finds people who live in cities show diminished powers of general attention compared to people from remote areas.
- Big pictures of New York City's Grand Central Terminal, the country's most beautiful train station.
- Clocks in Grand Central are deliberately one minute late, resulting in the fewest slips, trips, and falls of any station in the country.
- List of 100 facts about Grand Central includes news of a trapdoor in the information booth.
- Elizabeth Kiem's audio guide to great music from Mali.
- New trend in Japan: Women paying for snaggleteeth.
- See also: Video shows how the procedure's done at Tokyo's Dental Salon Plaisir.
- Finally we know how pigeons fly home: solar navigation, an inbuilt compass, and an ability to hear infrasound.
- Dopamine, "the Kim Kardashian of neurotransmitters," is not actually a pleasure chemical, no matter the media's infatuation.
- Environmental regulations and thorny negotiations mean Europe won't be fracked for at least 15 years.
- Series of trashy French espionage novels are so full of real spies' secret accounts, they're ahead of the news and sometimes even ahead of events themselves.
- Netflix strives to become the next HBO on the backs of Kevin Spacey and CEO Reed Hastings.
- NBC's Deception believes casting a black detective, and being otherwise colorblind, is progressive; the opposite is true.
