TOO CLOSE TO THE TRUTH?
How Deep Was The CIA's Involvement In 'Zero Dark Thirty'?
andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com
In what is a somewhat delicious irony, the movie that Republicans once denounced as a possible propaganda move for Obama's re-election is now being assailed by the Senate Intelligence Committee as pro-CIA propaganda.
HEALING
What The First Day Back At The New Sandy Hook Elementary Felt Like
theatlanticwire.com
Sandy Hook Elementary students attended class Thursday for the first time since 20 of their fellow students and six adults who worked at the school were killed in the December shooting.
BOEHNER'S SO SWEET WE WANT TO CRY
11 Surprisingly Endearing Pictures Of Congressmen Getting Sworn In
buzzfeed.com
Adorable kids can make even politicians look like human beings. Sort of, anyway.
MASS EXTINCTION
There Is A Rewarding For Killing Camels In Australia
aljazeera.com
Can a Qatari former camel herder find an alternative to the mass killing of camels underway in Australia?
TOP GUNS GET ALL THE GLORY
Why Don't Drone Pilots Get More Promotions?
livescience.com
U.S. military drone pilots fly more missions per week than most fighter pilots do in months, but they don't get promotions as often as pilots of manned aircraft.
NO WORD YET ON 'DON'T BE EVIL' MANDATE
The Government Just Decided Google Isn't An Illegal Monopoly: Here's Why
slate.com
The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday unanimously cleared Google of charges that it has been stifling competition by manipulating its search results to promote its own products—such as its shopping, travel, and local results pages—above those of its rivals.
LIFE OF A 'LIKE' JUNKIE
Why Some Facebook Users Constantly Update Their Status
livescience.com
Scientists have found what compels people to constantly update their Facebook status.
THAT ADDICTIVE WHITE STUFF
Will Sugar Be Regulated Like Cigarettes?
qz.com
Robert Lustig is on a crusade to have sugar regulated like alcohol. He wants products full of sugar to get health warnings, like on cigarette packs. Sugar, he says, is toxic in high doses, and should be treated as such.
PREPARE FOR SOME ANGRY STATUS UPDATES
Would You Use Facebook if It Looked Like This?
gizmodo.com
if you thought Timeline was radical, check out this (unofficial) prototype.
NUCLEAR GHOST TOWN
Inside Chernobyl's Abandoned Hospital
theatlantic.com
A once-modern facility after 27 years of nuclear contamination and neglect.
IF YOU'RE A TAILOR, YOU'VE GOT IT MADE
The Most (And Least) Stressful Careers
businessnewsdaily.com
University professors and enlisted military personnel are at the opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to the stresses of the job, new research has found.
HOMEMADE MORPHINE
Need A Powerful Painkiller? Just Apply Some Electricity To Your Head
extremetech.com
Releasing the human body's most powerful pain killers is as simple as strapping a couple of damp sponges to your scalp and attaching a 9-volt battery.
GAMESTOP EMPLOYEES NEED TRAINING IN LADY
Outlandish Work Training Videos
thedailybeast.com
A new Alabama Department of Homeland Security film is equal parts graphic and corny. From maintaining your Chuck E. Cheese rat costume to selling to women at GameStop, see more bizarre instructional clips.
INNOVATORS
Meet The Man Who Invented High Frame Rate Film 30 Years Before 'The Hobbit'
theverge.com
Douglas Trumbull tried — and failed — to bring HFR to theaters in the 80s. With digital cinema, he's getting another chance.
NEW YEAR'S TYPO
What Happens If You Mistakenly Write 2012 On A 2013 Check?
businessweek.com
So you foggily wrote last year’s date on a check, your memory or fine motor skills lagging behind the calendar. Will that come back to bite you?
'SPEARING' MORE FUN THAN ACTUAL HOCKEY
The Evolution Of An Epic Minor League Hockey Brawl
buzzfeed.com
A recent game in the Southern Professional Hockey League (which exists!) featured a bench-clearing slobberknocker worthy of the NHL, resulting in 129 combined penalty minutes for fighting, throwing equipment and spearing. Here's a frame-by-frame breakdown of the brouhaha.
GROUND ZERO AT MODEL-TRAIN TOWN
A Tiny City Built To Be Destroyed By Cyber Terrorists, So Real Cities Know What’s Coming
fastcoexist.com
CyberCity takes up a mere 48 square feet, but it has a working electric grid, transportation system, and banking network. And it’s routinely under attack by hackers whose plans are worse than stealing credit card numbers: they want to destroy the city itself.
THANKS SCIENCE
Hot Chocolate Tastest Much Better In An Orange Cup
gizmodo.com
Scientists have discovered that an orange or creme-colored cup definitely makes chocolate taste better, while a white or red cup will not enhance the flavor.
WE AWAIT THE BIRTH OF AN IMMORTAL MOUSE
A Guide To The Next 150 Years
bbc.com
What's going to happen in 2013? In ten year's time? 50 years? 100? We look ahead to see what the future holds according to predictions from thinkers, scientists and pundits -- and the odds of them happening.
MISSING
The Inside Story Of An American Journalist Missing In Syria
thedailybeast.com
Family and colleagues lift the secrecy surrounding the kidnapping of James Foley, the U.S. journalist abducted on Thanksgiving Day.
AND YOU CAN'T MANAGE TO FIND THAT SLIP
How UPS Moves 2,000 Packages Every 17 Seconds
engadget.com
UPS relies on Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky: a 5.2 million-square-foot processing facility that's capable of sorting up to 416,000 packages an hour.
BUY YOUR TURTLENECK NOW
Ashton Kutcher’s Steve Jobs Film Due In April
blogs.wsj.com
The biopic traces Jobs’s life from college dropout to co-founder of Apple, and includes major moments in his life from 1971 through 2000.
'I KNEW MY ACTIONS MIGHT COST HIM HIS LIFE'
The Man Who Betrayed Bradley Manning
guardian.co.uk
More than two years after Manning's arrest, the man who gave him up sits down for an interview about how he made his decision.
NOT AS ELEMENTARY AS HE MAKES IT LOOK
How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes
slate.com
What the detective can teach us about observation, attention, and happiness.
BAD 'GREEN CARD' REMAKE?
Why is Gerard Depardieu Becoming Russian?
blog.foreignpolicy.com
Oscar nominee's legacy in his home country is a bit more complicated after he announced he was renouncing his French citizenship and has now -- apparently -- been granted a Russian passport by order of Vladimir Putin himself.
OBESITY
This Is Why You Can't Stop Eating
gizmodo.com
High fructose corn syrup is in practically everything we eat these days, and doctors and health nuts have been waxing poetic about its dangers for years. Now, a new study from Yale University School of Medicine may finally prove them the right: fructose is making us fat.
YOU CAN STOP POKING GARY FROM ACCOUNTING NOW
You Can't Get Fired For Complaining About Your Job On Facebook
slate.com
It’s become harder to fire workers for griping online.

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