February 7, 2012: Afternoon
- Obama returns $200,000 linked to the family of a fugitive casino magnate.
- Nice things about Attila the Hun.
- Notes on whether Italy can change its ways, or remain "more or less equally honored and dishonored."
- Despite the lock-out, the NBA is doing very well, with viewership going "a bit nuts."
- Hospital nurse lists top regrets expressed prior to death.
- Story of former spouses, now step-siblings (her mother married his father), as they attempt to co-care for their aging parents.
- Twenty-five lessons learned from opening a bookstore.
- Colleges from Dixie State to Harvard offering bathroom-naming opportunities to donors.
- Oldie but goodie: Dallas food blogger finds world's most expensive chocolate in Plano.
- Pictures from the freeze in Europe.
- How Wall Street profits off weather.
- Tale of the 34-year-old virgin who photographs his stool, optimizes his sperm, and has fathered 15 children while angering the FDA.
- Consider the perceptual challenges inherent in the robotic manipulation of unseen socks.
- New OkGo video features 1,000+ instruments struck by a moving car.
- Somehow we are late to this: The Collected Blurbs of Gary Shteyngart.
- Cataloging the precise moment when you know a relationship is over.