January 22, 2013: Morning
- Obama's speech readies nation for February's state-of-the-union address by putting climate change center stage.
- Studies to measure fracking's effects on public health are unavailable because pro-business state governments won't fund them.
- "In Focus" selection of photographs from the second inauguration.
- Nate Silver: Judging by the growth of government spending, America has become the world’s largest insurance broker.
- Jill Lepore on our massive military spending and the government's deference to Defense.
- Anti-austerity media darling in Portugal found to be complete fraud.
- Guide for southern Europeans on how to be Swedish, including "light candles with every meal."
- Nowegian girl says she'll sleep with boy if he gets one million "likes" on Facebook; current tally: 1.2 million.
- Boyfriends-for-rent available to young women going home to face grilling from older relatives during the Chinese new year.
- Harvard scientist says we should clone Neanderthals in order to add greater diversity to society.
- First use of a speech prosthesis in history: Man uses computer to order pizza in 1974.
- Realistic office settings constructed from paper.
- Production notes on the movie filmed entirely in Disney parks (without permission) now playing at Sundance; actors kept their scripts on smartphones.
- Related: Scene from the movie, Escape From Tomorrow.
- Former houseboy Kevin Guilfoile on why buttons are sewed on the wrong sides of women's shirts.
- New science about the traumatic period known as high school, when self-image becomes especially adhesive, as do our preferences.