October 20, 2011: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Conflicting reports from Libyan commanders say Gadhafi's been captured and/or injured, and/or killed.
- Some Pakistani military officers find this year's Army book club choice—Woodward's Obama's Wars—disturbing.
- Rushdie talks about religion, Arab Spring, "addictive garbage" Game of Thrones.
- Border Patrol and Texas mayors uninterested in GOP nominees' fencing plans.
- The face of gerontocracy: five related powerful men, with only one who can walk unaided.
- Federal employees' wages, plus a concentration of lawyers, lift Washington DC over San Jose as America's wealthiest hub.
- Two hundred years late, lawyers claim Declaration of Independence was illegal.
- Israel's willingness to cut a deal with Hamas should be extended to dealing with the economy.
- Jonah Lehrer on the studies that show how we ruin each other's memories.
- Study of "neuromagic" explores psychology of how magic tricks work.
- MIT anthropologist infiltrates magicians' world in Paris.
- Norm Macdonald explains how to make $450,000 disappear while gambling.
- James Gaddy's "Google Image Search Project," a slideshow of results after searching for "Paper, Large Only."
- Video and explainer show what Google's self-driving car sees on the road.
- In light of the National Book Awards' title flub, TMN's Tournament of Books held up as what awards should emulate.
