January 9, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- This past year was the hottest ever recorded in the U.S., and the second-worst on the Climate Extremes Index.
- Australia's Bureau of Meteorology adds an extra color code at the top end of the temperature scale.
- Tennis players protest being forced to play in Australia's extreme heat.
- Wall Street Journal reporters reconstruct the life and attack of the New Delhi rape victim.
- Minting a debt-correcting trillion-dollar coin is illegal and stupid, and can we please stop discussing it.
- Krugman: We all hope the coin's prospect will simply take the debt ceiling off the table. But if not, mint the darn coin.
- Pictures of Kim Jong-Un being presented things to look at, including socks, escalators, children.
- First film of a giant squid in its natural habitat.
- Cheap places to visit this year on the U.S. dollar: Costa Rica, India, Vietnam, Bulgaria.
- Now that more than a hundred Michelin-starred restaurants serve Nespresso coffee, four coffee snobs blind-test push-button espresso against the handmade variety.
- Six children handicapped like race horses.
- "In Which I Fix My Girlfriend's Grandparents' Wifi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero."
- New fork begins vibrating when it catches you eating too quickly.
- To overhaul an old Chicago cold-storage building, the entire inside had to be defrosted.
