January 11, 2012: Morning
- Beyond closing Gitmo, it's time to return Guantánamo to Cuba, where imperialism has reigned since 1901.
- Gitmo's most controversial prisoners.
- Rampant nuclear proliferation and trigger-happy hotspots push the Doomsday Clock ahead another minute.
- The design evolution of Google Maps.
- The current rush to build skyscrapers should be cause for worry—these booms usually precede a financial crash.
- Increasingly intelligent smartphones may soon be able to prevent people from texting while drunk.
- A look back at polio's peak in the U.S. and the era of iron lungs.
- In 1900, a civil engineer accurately predicted many advances of the next 100 years, except for the size of strawberries.
- How particular food tastes—non-soggy cereal, brownie edges—turned some eaters into inventors.
- A New York vegetarian survives in the Midwest.
- Bittman: Americans are eating less meat, yet no one's saying it's because we want to eat less meat.
- Who is good enough to get into Cambridge? An unprecedented look inside the admissions process.
- How a kind-hearted priest introduced communion waffles to the capitalist marketplace.