* Electrodes on the brain may be the shortcut to the 10,000-hour talent rule. * Willpower is the root of all happiness; a new book explains how to exercise yours to get more. * Diners travel to a Hudson Valley monastery to experience mindful eating, where each bite can last 20
More than two decades later, a return visit to Tiananmen Square finds it scrubbed clean—just as it was immediately following the Incident. Except now there is thick smog, and ghosts. In contemporary Beijing, the past is like Kentucky Fried Chicken: unavoidable.
* Obama returns $200,000 linked to the family of a fugitive casino magnate. * Nice things about Attila the Hun. * Notes on whether Italy can change its ways, or remain "more or less equally honored and dishonored." * Despite the lock-out, the NBA is doing very well, with viewership
* After teacher arrests, LA school performs security theater for parents, temporarily replacing its entire staff. * When did the middle finger become offensive? * In the U.S., an invented country freed from its past, a tough match lays ahead for soccer vs. football. * Researchers force monkeys and humans to watch Clint
The United States is an enormous country, much too big for the nightly news. We asked one of our editors to randomly call people in towns around America and find out what’s really going on.
* New report on Twitter use in Africa reduced to very few characters. * Breakdown of bride pricing in southern Nigeria. * Arnold Bread offers 40 varieties, "and that is just counting the sliced breads, not the thins or buns." * Iran not amused by Samsung ad showing Israel accidentally blowing up
* Sloan-Kettering president accused of pilfering groundbreaking cancer research, using it to launch a biotech firm. * Nobel officials face inquiry into whether they've adhered to Alfred Nobel's ideals—case in point, Obama. * The genome of Wall St. traders. * People who speak languages that blur "today&
Selections from Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton’s captivating history of timelines, now in paperback—from time circles to time dragons, to a history of civilization drawn on a single piece of paper.
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* Hundreds killed in Syrian offensive, UN vote later today. * Largest anti-Putin protests yet in Moscow today despite temperatures of -4. * Talking to parents of Russian neo-Nazis * Somalia's famine is over, but it's still enduring its worst crisis in decades. * Keystone oil will be likely
