January 7, 2013: Afternoon
- The White House is plotting a surprisingly broad and aggressive gun control agenda.
- A society that is relying on guys with guns to stop violence is a sign of a society where institutions have broken down.
- How weapon technology like biometrics and grip detection could help prevent future massacres.
- Math-based rebuttal to the "end of history illusion" article about how we don't think we'll ever change.
- Our fixation with security hasn't helped much—maybe it's time we tried something different.
- In a new book, Jeff Bridges teams up with a Zen master to teach others the way of the Dude.
- California's amateur vintners are making waves and winning awards with their homemade wine.
- Pickpocket Apollo Robbins demonstrates his amazing sleight of hand.
- How Marcel Duchamp's informal dinner forever altered the New York avant-garde scene.
- The only way to escape narcissism entirely may be to stop making television.
- Digging into the data to figure out whether Thriller really sold 100 million copies.
- Conservatives debate the Romney loss.
- The practice of buying Twitter followers and YouTube views is both affordable and rampant.
- Tumblr of the Day: "Academic Men Explain Things to Me."
- The original Star Wars trilogy in map form.
- Lines from Neruda poems, as told by cats.