January 6, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Britain bashes London's financial might and excess; financiers would prefer an attitude like California's toward Silicon Valley.
- Poster: Visual history of financial crises.
- January is a bad month for fast-food restaurants, so deals abound, including KFC's new $11 "Weekend Bucket," with 10 pieces of chicken.
- Political reporters pray for strangeness in the coming months and put their hopes in Ron Paul.
- Muslim countries have nine scientists, engineers, and technicians per thousand people, compared with a world average of 41.
- Scientists at Cornell develop an invisibility cloak—that works for 40 trillionths of a second.
- In other news this week, scientists successfully bend space and time to erase history.
- Reading Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams 25 years later.
- A look at the book said to have spurred young Isaac Newton onto the scientific path, The Mysteries of Nature and Art by John Bate.
- Archive of links and things about Stanley Kubrick.
- Shot-by-shot comparison of Raiders of the Lost Ark vs. scenes from 30 different adventure films, 1919-1973.
- Recess Stories: short movies for children.
- Large link dump of movies and articles about the history of cities and bicycles.
- Pictures of worlds captured in liquid.
- Tokyo tour notes from Dean Wareham, formerly of Galaxie 500 and Luna.
- Multiple identities are natural; citizenship laws—like those that curtail multiple passports and residency-based voting—should catch up.
