January 23, 2013: Morning
- Taliban says Prince Harry has "mental problems" for comparing his role in killing militants to playing video games.
- Experiments that involve puppets suggest infants have an instinct to prefer good over evil.
- The U.S. is only the 85th most diverse country in the world; Canada ranks first.
- See also: Portraits of women astronauts.
- Hugo Chávez still controls all public powers in Venezuela despite his daily deaths and resurrections.
- Thomas Friedman tells incoming secretary of state John Kerry to break all the rules.
- Open letter to the New York Times: "In the interest of raising our country's foreign policy discourse, I beg you to put Friedman on leave."
- Escaped cloud of rotten-cabbage smells prompts worried phone calls in France and England.
- Federal appeals court, citing lack of rigorous studies, says marijuana isn't ready to be reclassified.
- Online commenters confess to believing incorrect facts.
- First e-book published by The Millions concerns our era's obsession with terrible art.
- Long profile of "superdealer" Larry Gagosian's mastery and fall in the contemporary art market.
- "People Are Awesome 2013"—compilation of amazing athletic feats and stunts.
- See also: "Recovering My Religion"—REM's hit reworked so all the minor keys are major.
- Serious research, mesmerizing surrealism, and the music of Yo La Tengo found in science films by Jean Painlevé.
- Round-up of the best movies that "pry open your skull and punch you in the brain."
- Video treasury of fantastic catwalk dancing from Soul Train.