January 22, 2013: Afternoon
- A young reporter who has covered only President Obama's first term has already witnessed several political epochs.
- How conspiracy theorists heard the inaugural speech.
- A timeline of Lupe Fiasco's obsession with conspiracy theories.
- LED bulbs' durability threatens manufacturer profits: Long-lasting bulbs reduce the need to replace as frequently.
- California makes it easier for amateur inventors to sell homemade products at major retailers.
- Researchers in Senegal hope that reintroducing prawns to the nation's rivers will reduce the number of snails that host a dangerous parasite.
- Fighting nature with nature: the new era of pesticides.
- Prior to Jan. 22, 1973, the probes and poisons women used to induce abortion.
- Today at TMN, Graham T. Beck recalls looking for a bear—and then he found a bear.
- Point-by-point legal analysis of Bilbo Baggins's contract in The Hobbit.
- Turns out it's the wrong maple leaf on the new Canadian dollar bills.
- Belgians celebrate the Manneken Pis, the statue of a little boy peeing that has become a national monument.
- The pun, though been reviled since Enlightenment days, has a history dating back to Jesus.