January 19, 2012: Morning
- Obama nixes Keystone XL pipeline, but the tar-sand oil will still flow.
- South Koreans go to Cambodia to hang out at North Korean's capitalist experiment: a global restaurant chain.
- Costa Concordia and the cult of the ship captain.
- The race to the bottom of the Mariana trench pits Richard Branson against James Cameron.
- Soccer is a game of waiting, punctuated by miracles amidst the endless flow.
- "Obliteration Room" gives hundreds of kids thousands of stickers to create art.
- Fake malaria drugs contain enough of the real stuff to pass tests and could enable resistance to treatment.
- Researcher discovers boa constrictors can sense the heartbeat of their prey to know when to stop squeezing.
- Romney enjoys a lead now, and may overtake Obama, but don't forget Dukakis—it wasn't the tank that did him in.
- How Rick Santorum misunderstands Ron Paul, libertarianism, and the French.
- Supreme Court rules Congress may re-copyright public domain works to comply with the Berne Convention.
- The rules for watching movies.
- All of Homer's "D'ohs" from the first 20 seasons.