January 30, 2012: Afternoon
- Politics and the recession have taken their best shots, but SETI won't die due to enthusiasts and the private sector.
- The lab that won't quit: still making medical history in facilities meant to be torn down in 1966.
- Discovered: 1972 documentary of Future Shock, narrated by Orson Welles.
- Caroline Brothers interviews the kids who walk alone out of Afghanistan in search of a new life.
- More colleges to employ TurnItIn, thus far the most effective weapon in the war against plagiarism.
- Farhad Manjoo: Don't be so quick to dismiss Reddit.
- From its early '60s inception to a e-book functionality, the highlighter has endured—users prefer yellow and pink.
- Last week, after two decades of refusal, France returned 20 mummified Maori heads to New Zealand.
- When the Nazis left Treblinka in 1943 they thought they had destroyed it.
- Hitler's Wolf's Lair for rent in Poland.
- Matthew Broderick to reprise Ferris Bueller in Super Bowl ad.