February 7, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- World Resources Institute offers tip for Obama on how to reduce U.S. emissions: Enact new standards for existing power plants.
- U.S. Postal Service to end Saturday delivery as fix for its financial woes—which appears to be a legal solution, technically.
- Most common job for American women is same today as it was in 1950: secretary.
- Coates: Violence in America, like the work of Kendrick Lamar, was created not by mindless nature but by public policy.
- Finding the right ending for a story can be a matter of relinquishing guns, not firing them.
- Even for those genetically predisposed to anxiety, the antidote isn’t less competition—it’s more competition. It just needs to be the right kind.
- Extensive, illustrated discussion of those times when Batman punched an animal.
- Survey of pirated, hacked video games available for sale in Nairobi, including Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: Kirk Douglas.
- Behold, gamers: Ikea Walkthrough v2.3.1.
- Related: "The Ikea effect" explains why you love the table you just assembled, even if it's crooked.
- If you dislike our current culture—globalized, multicultural, libertarian, target-marketed, relentlessly digital—blame 1993.
- Apps, plug-ins, and tips for protecting your private information from Facebook's new search tool.
- TMN's Robert Birnbaum on everything you need to read for everything you want to know about Abraham Lincoln.
- Unless we begin air-lifting seal meat, global warming will soon kill all wild polar bears.
- In photos: Marlin capsizes boat.
