November 27, 2012: Afternoon
- Despite national losses, Republicans won supermajorities in statehouses across the South and Great Plains.
- Don't believe Call of Duty: There won't be a cold war between China and the U.S. over rare earth minerals.
- China's Communist Party newspaper congratulates Kim Jong-un on being named "Sexiest Man Alive" by the Onion.
- India stamps new Chinese passports—which show disputed territory as China's—with "corrected" map.
- "Hinglish" could be India's future language.
- Book claims former OED editor tried to rewrite dictionary to be more Anglocentric.
- Collected tragic endings from the Choose Your Own Adventure series.
- Clemens and Bonds would be automatic Hall of Fame inductees next year were it not for looming steroid questions.
- San Antonio school district under fire for tracking students with microchips—attendance equals more budget dollars.
- SpaceX founder wants to send 80,000 colonists to Mars.
- Scott Kelly preps for a year at the ISS—the most consecutive days an American has spent in space.
- How a woman's struggle with oversleeping changed our basic knowledge of the phenomenon.
- Dr. Feldman identified a new manifestation of the syndrome, one that isn't listed in the DSM-IV...Munchausen syndrome by internet.
- Confidential police documents about Romney accidentally used as confetti in Thanksgiving parade.
- It wasn't the Russian winter that stopped Napoleon—it was the constant attacks by swarms of Cossacks and peasants.