March 15, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- North Korea accuses U.S. and South Korea of cyber attack and staging preparations for war.
- Point: In the "randy" CIA, spies and handlers screw around a lot, and we want them to, in order to be good at their jobs.
- Counterpoint: Real spies are promiscuous, true, but case officers are mostly full of talk.
- Gun companies defer to the NRA for two main reasons: Fear and profit.
- Chief of UN health agency’s infectious disease section explains how the internet helped contain SARS.
- Physicists confident they have found a Higgs boson, that elusive subatomic speck.
- After a powerful Democratic lobbyist is paid to intervene, EPA reverses stance and approves polluting pristine Texas water supply.
- Big pictures of North Dakota's oil boom.
- See also: Google Maps transformed by abstract expressionism.
- Inside One Hyde Park, among London's most secretive and expensive real estate, sold to unfamiliar corporations.
- Design assessment of Swallow magazine—"the least food-filled food magazine out there."
- Alyssa Milano made a Japanese pop album as a teenager—a multimedia assessment.
- On the history and resurgence of useless machines, including those that exist only to turn themselves off.
- Sam Anderson exchanges emails with poet, serial lower-case writer Anne Carson.
- University uses form letter full of capital letters and slang to recruit football players.
- Round-up of newly translated Dutch fiction.
