January 30, 2013: Afternoon
- Updated Google Maps of North Korea reveal gulags, nuclear complex.
- Related: "North Korea Won't Be Liberated in a Day" by Mike Deri Smith.
- More of 2012 best nonfiction in Conor Friedersdorf's annual journalism roundup.
- Why Palestine should take Israel to the International Criminal Court for war crimes.
- California budget cuts create backlog of nearly 20,000 felons and mentally ill gun owners yet to be disarmed.
- "Long data," with massive historical sweep, can be more meaningful than big data ever will.
- Kevin Fanning on Facebook: The internet was a pretty magical place to find yourself in the late '90s and early '00s.
- A map of Facebook data depicts the geographic locations of NFL fans across the U.S.
- Texan lawmaker files a bill that would require the University of Texas and Texas A&M to renew their annual football game.
- The right way to build a plate of nachos.
- In Paris...my nachos were made from crepes, and smothered in crème fraiche, rosemary and white beans.
- Inside the Ghanian suburb that's produced five world champion boxers.
- A lip reader deciphers the profanity-laced conversations between baseball coaches and umpires.
- Researchers discover that people are twice as likely to cough during classical music concerts as any other time.
- Researchers find British embarrassment over health symptoms is resulting in lower cancer survival rates.
- See also: Peculiar to Britons, the fear of conversation and other personal contact.
- Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's "Oblique Strategies" in motion—pause for your answer.
- TMN's Liz Entman Harper on her late-'80s girlhood dream of becoming a fighter pilot.
- The domestic cat [is] one of the single greatest human-linked threats to wildlife in the nation.
- Be our intern: The application deadline is this Friday.