January 23, 2012: Afternoon
- Chicago Sun-Times, doubting its relevance, drops political endorsements.
- What the left gets right, according to conservatives.
- Though the Christian Right was cold-shouldered in 2008, and hasn't fared well in 2012, don't be too quick to dismiss its influence.
- The moral laziness of fine print.
- Yes, that Washington Post front page everyone posted on Facebook is fake.
- Plastic surgery no longer thwarts face-recognition software.
- Why scientists should not be science journalists.
- I think it's better to illuminate shit and learn about it than to opinionate about it.
- Newt Gingrich and other individuals who are mentioned only once in Reagan's diary.
- Adventist paradise Loma Linda, liquor- and smoke-free, grapples with an encroaching McDonald's.
- How not to keep your kids from growing up too fast: the Purity Bear.
- Heartwarmer: Homeless semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search gets a college scholarship.
- A history of "pearl clutching."