November 30, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- China extends stop-and-board rights to most of the South China Sea—far from the mainland, the waters are already claimed by other nations.
- Sandy evacuees housed in NYC hotels prepare to transfer to more permanent temporary arrangements.
- The overall U.S. birth rate decreased by 8% between 2007-10, and by 6% among U.S.-born women.
- Geologists spar over the age of the Grand Canyon, with estimates ranging between six and 65 million years.
- Visiting a Congolese pygmy tribe.
- In Brazil's first rubber boom, tappers became near-slaves; in the next, they'll be the bosses.
- U.S. drought effects linger, as the size of the national herd reaches an all-time low.
- As manufacturing becomes cheaper and more automated, the old rules are being cast aside, and the old guard readies for a GDP battle.
- Staples to offer in-store 3D printing—upload your design, then stop in to pick up your object.
- Danish entrepreneur starts a consultancy of autistic workers who are better at certain jobs than their non-autistic peers.
- Sweden's Toys "R" Us counterpart launches gender-neutral toy catalog.
- On Nov. 29, 1972, a crude table-tennis arcade game in a garish orange cabinet was delivered to bars and pizza parlors around California.
- Atari celebrates Pong's 40th anniversary with an iPhone app and a modified Xbox 360.
- Play Pong online.
- MoMA acquires 14 video games, plans to expand to 40 more games in 2013.
- Our latest TMN Weekender: Todd Levin recalls his growing up with video games.
