February 6, 2013: Afternoon
- Picking apart the case for drones against Americans.
- The presence of armed drones in Germany's arsenal would come in handy the next time a NATO ally requests backup.
- How the Taliban is using promises of sex as a tool for recruitment.
- Ted Cruz of Texas is now the only senator who has been on the losing side of every vote this term.
- In the 1900s, utopian settlers created Blacktown, a short-lived settlement of African Americans in New Mexico.
- Related: An artist imagines families surviving the Great Depression raising children and farming homesteads—in the absence of men.
- Images and videos from a computer model depicting the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.
- Erik Bryan walks through Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, site of two of the largest World's Fairs ever.
- A flight attendant explains his superhero-themed phonetic alphabet.
- I thought for a moment about how long it took for Shields to make this music, and then how much longer it took him to make peace with it.
- Laurie Anderson interviews Brian Eno.
- Deep beneath Italy's Gran Sasso mountains, shielded from cosmic rays, scientists try to solve the mysteries of dark matter.
- Hollywood can't get enough of distracted people being hit by buses.