November 29, 2012: Afternoon
- Today Syria disconnected from the internet.
- Another hardship for coastal residents in New York and New Jersey: mandatory flood insurance.
- Climate change in the kitchen.
- Tumblr of the day: Eating Carefully.
- They're convinced that it just so happens that their self-interest coincides perfectly with the collective interest.
- Doctors accuse each other of agendas after a study claims long-distance running harms older athletes.
- Patients with heart devices fight for access to the information their chests are transmitting.
- Related: Inspired by a fitness-tracking device, a new ideal for living.
- Jeffrey Goldberg and Jonathan Rauch discuss why gays should carry firearms.
- A new kind of gun scope tags a target, then fires once the gun is aimed perfectly at the target.
- What we really want from our robots: "the possibility of machines making their own moral progress."
- The xx opens its exhibition, called "Missing," in LA.
- The New Museum takes a trip all the way back to 1993 New York.