For starters, there’s no button.

North Korea reopens its border telephone line with the South—a dramatic reversal of relations and probably a clever strategic move to thwart the White House. 1/16

If you thought Trump couldn’t make himself look any more pathetic: after Kim Jong Un mentioned a nuclear button on his desk, Trump protested that he’s got one, too, and it’s bigger and more powerful. 2/16

For starters, there’s no button. 3/16

A drunk man with a “small arsenal” of weapons on the top floor of a Houston hotel was arrested on New Year’s Eve. 4/16

A drunk man took a taxi in Copenhagen in 2017 and arrived in Oslo in 2018, but didn’t pay the fare. 5/16

Ajit Pai is still revising the net neutrality order, and no one yet knows the final scope of the repeal. 6/16

A Q&A with a retired Air Force general on our lack of oversight in preventing the proliferation of lethal robots. 7/16

Here’s the moon’s topography using Earth colors. And here’s a collection of beautiful geologic maps of the Moon. 8/16

2017 marked the safest year in commercial aviation history, with no commercial passenger jet deaths reported. 9/16

Twenty-nine journalists, writers, and thinkers choose the most and least important events of the past 12 months. 10/16

TMN’s Andrew Womack shares his favorite music of the year: 74 albums that he listened to over and over in 2017. 11/16

Artist Adela Andea depicts natural phenomena as light installations. 12/16

Plant-based food innovation is nearing an uncanny valley, where every scientist is competing on meat emulation. 13/16

YouTuber Logan Paul’s awful video increases suicide risk among his audience of 15 million viewers through copycat behavior. 14/16

Because those with a family history of cancer get screened more, we don’t understand the scope of all risk factors. 15/16

Watching his father’s body enter the death process, a doctor reflects on what keeps someone whole. 16/16

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