January 9, 2013: Afternoon
- Virginia's governor wants to remove the state's gas tax and begin taxing alternative-fuel cars.
- The world's largest scale model of the solar system actually covers all of Sweden.
- Map of the best and worst countries to be born into today.
- Writer calls Richard Marx "shameless," prompting Richard Marx to meet him at a bar for a showdown.
- On the unlikely campaign to reclaim the scariest word in Islam: jihad.
- Richard Blanco will be America's first Latino inaugural poet.
- Electoral-prediction guru Nate Silver does Reddit's "Ask Me Anything" and talks burritos.
- Majority of economists believe we should tax people for doing annoying, damaging things.
- "And now I'm going to tell you exactly how to get onto The Price Is Right."
- As new allegation surfaces, Lance Armstrong says he'll go on the Oprah Network next week.
- New York's 3,100-mile "self-transcendence" race requires contestants to run 5,649 laps around a half-mile block in 52 days.
- Guide to the norovirus— "transforming ordinarily carefree human beings into spluttering, sulphurous geysers of molten waste."
- Enormous internet appreciation of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.