January 29, 2013: Morning
- Despite its military success, France's go-it-alone approach in Mali spells grim news for Europe's future.
- City of Dijon sells off half its prized municipal wine cellar to help fund local social spending.
- Uproar in France after Sarkozy's son gets law professor job at top Paris university before finishing his own law studies.
- France bans term "hashtag" in favor of mot-diese, which means "hashtag-word."
- British ministers consider negative advertising campaign in Bulgaria and Romania to persuade potential immigrants to stay away.
- Britain's leaky buildings are responsible for 40% of the country’s greenhouse-gas emissions.
- Man rides entire LA Metro in a single day.
- List of painters to watch this year reflects "this current moment in painting."
- Metallica calculates it will make more money from streaming than CD sales when Spotify reaches 20 million subscribers.
- Thomas Pynchon in 1984 on whether it's OK to be a Luddite.
- Music critic Alex Ross briefly name-checks lesser-known classical quartets to watch.
- Photographs from behind the scenes of the Vienna's Museum of Natural History.
- "European Spider of the Year 2012" goes to Meta menardi, large cave spider.
- See also: X-rays of art from the collections of the Getty Museum and San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum.