November 12, 2012: Morning
- During Sandy, 15 inmates escaped from a New Jersey halfway house when the power went down and the doors unlocked.
- Ex-members of the Sri Lankan rebel army turn to garment factories for employment.
- Large explosion damages 20 homes in Indianapolis neighborhood.
- The saga of a man accused of murdering his twin, and the ensuing evidence nightmare.
- What the 2012 presidential election would have looked like without universal suffrage.
- You are buying clothes not because you love them, but because, at $50, those hot pants are as cheap as Sunday brunch for two.
- Scientists perfectly cloak an object—but it only works from one direction and in controlled conditions.
- Related: When we will have our invisibility cloaks, if ever.
- Space exploration won't be what you think.
- For better and for worse, paper remains our absolute all-time favourite self-extending prosthetic technology and device.
- The difference between hearing and listening.
- Nickelback: hated, mocked—and ever richer.
- In South Carolina, barbecue meant strands of pulled pork enlivened by the tanginess of yellow mustard-based sauce.