January 17, 2013: Afternoon
- Oral history of Obama's first term.
- On Friday, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah made history when he named 30 women to the kingdom's Shura Council.
- More lethal than drones are drones that can make their own decisions—what we can expect when they reach the battlefield.
- Related: Construct a Terminator Robot by 2017 and other rejected White House petitions.
- A musical adapted from the 1997 documentary Hands on a Hardbody is set to open on Broadway in March.
- Recalling New York's 1979 city-wide strikes.
- Vincent Sombrotto, the letter carrier who led the 1970 nationwide post-office strike, dies at 89.
- How they treated the flu in olden times.
- To cure severe intestinal infections, feces transplants from healthy donors may be the answer.
- In the wonderland of biotechnology, bacteria is beautiful, moss is electric and decorative tiles are animated.
- The flu-humidity relationship.
- Researchers shock crabs to learn more about their pain perception, encourage people to be kind to seafood.
- Mammoth Cave reports detection of a fungus that has killed six million bats in North America since 2006.
- Inspired by the blogger-meets-pop-musician story on TMN, semi-fictional stories about meeting Richard Marx.
- Kicking off a new series by Kevin Fanning at TMN: "The Impossible Expectations for Kim & Kanye's Baby."