January 20, 2012: Morning
- Unsafe abortions are on the rise globally.
- State capitalism is on the rise, but is probably bad for business.
- A libertarian argument for (the right kind of) government regulation.
- Who supports SOPA and PIPA in Congress, and who doesn't.
- China reacts to SOPA.
- The long road to bring the Hajj to the British Museum.
- A strange tale of senior citizens as would-be-terrorists in Georgia.
- Air Force's top scientist doesn't want faster jets, but a social radar to peer into any nation's soul.
- Researchers discover the Rostov Ripper's murders in the 1980s fit the formula that predicts earthquakes.
- Futurologists grade 2112 predictions: ocean farming, telepathy, immortality all likely.
- New urban homesteading trend: raising trashcan tilapia.
- New crop of philosophers align with cosmologists to ask what happened before the big bang.
- A beginner's guide to Bolaño.
- After a three-year hiatus, Poe fanatics fear the mysterious "Poe toaster" may never reappear.