Britannica Blog Archive: Posts from 2010

Britannica Blog Archive: Posts from 2010

• The Zombie Diet
• A Pictorial Toast to New Year’s
• Nanotechnology: The Science of Miniaturization (Picture Essay of the Day)
• The Collins Kids, “Chantilly Lace” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• “…The Republic of Texas is No More” (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Surviving Winter: The Many Forms of Dormancy
• The Iron Horse: An Ode to Lou Gehrig (and My Dad)
• An Old Mill Underwater (Photo of the Day)
• 25 Years of “Women in Rock”
• The Wide, Wide World of Quincy Jones
• Byzantine Masterpiece: Hagia Sophia (Picture of the Day)
• Christmas in Pictures
• Marie Osmond Meets Dada
• Explaining the Decline of Creativity in American Children: A Reply to Readers
• Picture Perfect: Yousuf Karsh (Picture of the Day)
• 10 Notable Deaths From the World of Religion in 2010
• Britannica’s 2010 Year in Review Roundup
• The Political Implications of the Census
• 2010 in Pictures
• 10 Notable Deaths From the World of Sports in 2010
• 10 Notable Deaths From the World of Writing in 2010
• Top 10 Posts on Britannica Blog for 2010
• The Dystopian Dame: 2010 TV Character Type of the Year (Part 2)
• Filmmaking Behind the Camera: 5 Questions for Hollywood Video Technician Chris Wagganer
• The Opening of the President’s House in Philadelphia
• This is not a shirt…or is it?
• 10 Stories That Made 2010 and How Britannica Covered Them
• 10 Notable Deaths From the World of Politics in 2010
• Recycling Britannica, Part II (The Art of Wendy Wahl)
• The Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Frank Zappa, “Stairway to Heaven” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Trees
• The Red-Billed Quelea: Africa’s Avian Riff-Raff
• Tea Party Madness
• Nemo’s Friends (Photo of the Day)
• 10 People of 2010 to Watch in 2011
• 10 Notable Deaths From the World of Science in 2010
• Editors’ Choice: Top Recommended Articles From 2010 by Britannica’s Editors
• 10 Notable Deaths From the World of Stage and Screen in 2010
• Magnetic Macau
• The Dystopian Dame: 2010 TV Character Type of the Year (Part 1)
• 10 Notable Deaths From the World of Visual Arts in 2010
• 10 Notable Deaths From the World of Music in 2010
• The Wrights’ First Flight (Picture Essay of the Day)
• 10 Britannica Interviews From 2010 You Shouldn’t Have Missed
• Science Up Front: Gary Luck and Lisa Smallbone on the Impact of Urbanization on Birds
• Phil Ochs, “I Ain’t Marching Anymore” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Top 10 Most-Read Articles on Britannica for 2010
• Top 10 Most-Viewed Images on Britannica for 2010
• Exploring the Emotions of the Underwater World in Pictures
• Exploring Autism, Empathy, and Neurodiversity: 5 Questions for Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen
• A Forum on the Obama Presidency
• The Obama Presidency: What Happens Now?
• President Obama: The Not So Great Communicator
• President Obama’s Uncertain Certainty
• President Obama: Let Me Introduce You to the U.S. Senate
• Urban Etiquette: You’re Not Gonna Reach My Telephone
• A Land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields: Gone with the Wind (Picture of the Day)
• Biodiversity Decline and the Spread of Infectious Disease
• Barack Obama and Gun Control: Effective and Shrewd
• Richard Holbrooke (1941-2010): Architect of the Dayton Accords
• Barack Obama and FDR: A Misguided (If Inevitable) Comparison
• Planck’s Radiation Law: Explaining the Energy Distribution of Blackbodies (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Obama and Truman
• Why Obama Likely Wins In 2012
• Barack Obama: Overreacher-in-Chief
• Has Obama Failed America or Has America Failed Obama?
• Obama’s Empathy Gap
• Barack Obama’s Bankrupt Public Philosophy
• Soft-shelled Samurais?: Legend of the Heike Crab (Picture of the Day)
• Cardboard Cops in Miniskirts, Budget Cuts and a Baby’s Life, 18-2120, Ice Rugby, and the Ice Tron Hotel (Around the Web for December 10)
• Nobel Prizes 2010: A Look at the Winners
• Happy Human Rights Day (Picture of the Day)
• Science Up Front: Noah Whiteman on the Coevolution of Plants and Plant-Eating Insects
• Sarah Palin Hunted and Hacked, Two Dogs and a Goat, the Gender “Glass Cliff”, and North Korean Posters (Around the Web for December 9)
• Born Free (Unfortunately): Invasion of the Lionfish
• The Architecture of the Human Brain (Picture Essay of the Day)
• The Hydrogenosome: An Anaerobic Powerhouse
• Awesome Dogs, China’s Nobel Peace Prize, a White House Christmas Tree Scandal?, and the Queen’s Underwear (Around the Web for December 8)
• Is the Korean Peninsula on the Brink of War? An Interview with Chung-in Moon
• Shine On: 30th Anniversary of John Lennon’s Assassination (Picture Essay of the Day)
• John Lennon, “Happy Christmas (War Is Over)” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• When Ducks Blow, When Pigs Fly, the Spread of Diabetes, and “Let It Be” Celebrity Edition (Around the Web for December 7)
• Obama and GOP Tax Deal: Who Won? (Around the Web for December 7 Tax Cut Edition)
• A Date Which Will Live in Infamy: Pearl Harbor (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: 5 Questions for Developmental Biologist David Stocum
• Tom Waits, “Get Behind the Mule” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• The Great Tax Debate, Facebook’s Facelift, Get Out Mom!, Amazing Treehoppers, and the Maccabeats (Around the Web for December 6)
• Ireland: A Journey Through the Emerald Isle (Picture Essay of the Day)
• The Good Book and the Future of Books
• Côte Chaos, Congressional “Chicken Crap”, Arsenic and New Life, FIFA and al-Qaeda, and Kim Jong Il’s Gaze (Around the Web for December 3)
• Remembering Mary Baker Eddy a Century After Her Death (Picture of the Day)
• Science Up Front: Petra Wester on the Pollination of the Pagoda Lily by the Cape Rock Elephant Shrew
• In Shadow: The Other Realm of Life on Earth
• Ireland’s Animated Bailout, God’s Memoir, the Voyeuristic Doorknob, Polygamy in Canada?, and Yosemite’s Pseudoscorpion (Around the Web for December 2)
• Fearful Symmetry: The Tiger (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Welcome to the House of Atreus
• Caribou: The Nomadic Reindeer of North America
• A Conversation about WikiLeaks
• World AIDS Day, the WikiLeaks Fallout, Republican Obstruction, Squirrel Food, and Gatwick’s Winter Wonderland (Around the Web for December 1)
• World AIDS Day: Recommitting Ourselves to a Winnable Battle
• Life in the Age of AIDS is the Story of Us All
• Remembering Rosa Parks: “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement”
• Urban Etiquette: Transit Bandits
• World AIDS Day 2010: Improving Care and Recognizing Human Rights (Picture Essay of the Day)
• The End of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?, Bieber’s Crack-up, the Tequila Party, and the Sun’s New Owner (Around the Web for November 30)
• Rediscovering Adam Smith: 5 Questions for Biographer Nicholas Phillipson
• The Voice of America: Mark Twain (Picture Essay of the Day)
• World AIDS Day: 5 Questions for Royston Martin and the World AIDS Campaign
• WikiLeaks Much Ado About Nothing?, A Second Korean War?, a Franken-Apple, and a Citizens’ Constitution for Iceland (Around the Web for November 29)
• The Debate Over Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
• The Empress Dowager Cixi Turns 175 (Picture of the Day)
• Science Up Front: Jeffrey M. Aristoff and Sunghwan Jung on the Physics of Cat Lapping
• George Harrison, “All Things Must Pass” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• The Enduring Evergreen
• Thanksgiving Day in Pictures: From Pilgrims to the TSA
• The Who, “My Generation” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Our Relationship With Animals: An Interview with Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat Author Hal Herzog
• A Monster and a Gentleman: Boris Karloff (Picture Essay of the Day)
• The Past, Present, and Future of the Royal Society: 5 Questions for Historian Michael Hunter
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (12 Great Spy Movies)
• A Death in Dallas: The Assassination of JFK (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Army of Shadows (12 Great Spy Movies)
• The Gettysburg Address: Seven Score and Seven Years Ago (Picture of the Day)
• Swimming Simbas
• Science Up Front: Sebastian Pohl and Susanne Foitzik on the Raiding Behavior of the Slavemaking Ant Protomognathus
• The Lives of Others (12 Great Spy Movies)
• Gitmo Verdict, Estrogen Power, a Cool Chameleon, and Awesome BioScapes (Around the Web for November 18)
• Leafcutter Ants and Their Subterranean City Gardens (Picture Essay of the Day)
• The Good Shepherd (12 Great Spy Movies)
• Do Democrats Understand Political Independents?
• Guns on Planes?, Bar Hopping Koala, Crowdsourcing Climate Change, and the Death of the Phone Book (Around the Web for November 17)
• The Amazing Acorn
• Venomous Vipers, Poisonous Platypuses, and Toxic Ticks: 5 Questions for Venomologist Dr. Bryan Grieg Fry
• Auguste Rodin: The Death of The Kiss (Picture Essay of the Day)
• A Visit to Bozcaada in Turkey
• Munich (12 Great Spy Movies)
• Facebook’s Google Killer, Cat Beats Gator, the Intangible Heritage of Carpet Weaving, and the Tea Party Ear War (Around the Web for November 16)
• One-Term Barack (Obama)?
• Darwinian Medicine: 5 Questions for Psychologist and Evolutionary Biologist Randolph M. Nesse
• The Pipe to Somewhere: Happy Birthday to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act (Picture of the Day)
• Foreign Correspondent (12 Great Spy Movies)
• The Terror Threat Index, Skyping Marriage, Google’s War, Sex and the Internet (x2), and Clinton’s Hangover (Around the Web for November 15)
• Promoting African American Literacy: 5 Questions for Brown Baby Reads Executive Director Dawn Eddy
• Georgia O’Keeffe: An Artist in Full Bloom (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Our Man in Havana (12 Great Spy Movies)
• Myanmar Pro-Democracy Activist Aung San Suu Kyi Released
• The Last Brothel, Cats Suck (Literally), Jersey Drivers, and Sarah TV (Around the Web for November 12)
• Soldiers of Food: 5 Questions for Cooking with the Troops CEO and Chairman C. Blake Powers
• Remembering the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta Cyclone Catastrophe (Picture of the Day)
• Science Up Front: Pieter Vermeesch on the Ancient Sands of the Namib Desert
• Three Days of the Condor (12 Great Spy Movies)
• Like the Devil Hates Holy Water, the Health Benefits of Tetris, and Food and the Nanny State (Around the Web for November 11)
• Exercise and Colds: 5 Questions for Human Performance Researcher David Nieman
• Remembering Veterans (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (12 Great Spy Movies)
• Marijuana Legalization: Not If, But When
• Urinating on Your Phone, Mystery Alaska, a California Conspiracy, and the Coming Chocopalypse (Around the Web for November 10)
• Urban Etiquette: Thanks for Not Sharing
• The Istanbul Not in the Guidebooks
• Quantum of Solace (12 Great Spy Movies)
• Richard Burton, Lion of the Welsh (Picture Essay of the Day)
• George W.’s Memoir, Outsourcing to Michigan, No Kimono Obama, AutoCorrect Tragedies, and Breaking Up for the Holidays (Around the Web for November 9)
• Out of History’s Closet and On to the Stage: 5 Questions for Theater Producer/Director and Political Activist Ryan J. Davis
• Environmental Engineering, Ecology, and Sustainability (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Syriana (12 Great Spy Movies)
• The Ethics and Morality of the Circus
• Obama’s Excellent Indian Adventure, Before They Were Stars (Dictator Edition), and the Facebooking Queen (+ More): Around the Web for November 8
• The Census of Marine Life’s Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) Project: 5 Questions for Principal Investigator Randy Kochevar
• Chicago: My Kind of Town (Picture Essay of the Day)
• The Bourne Identity (12 Great Spy Movies)
• Guy Fawkes Day, or Please to Remember the Fifth of November (Picture Essay of the Day)
• 12 Great Spy Movies: A Film Series
• Through the Looking Glass: The Red Queen Hypothesis of Natural Selection
• Uncovering Tut’s Tomb (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Strike a Pose: The Contortions of the White-Faced Owl
• An Angry, Divided, Pessimistic, Older, White Electorate: What the 2010 Exit Polls Tell Us
• The Early Read: Glee for Republicans, Democratic Doldrums, and America’s Strange Voters (Around the Web Midterms 2010 Edition for November 3)
• Human Needs vs. Human Behavior: Reexamining Our Relationship with Nature
• Space Weather (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Remembering Annie Oakley, “the Peerless Lady Wing-Shot”
• The Chilean Marathoner, Political Sexism 101, Jury Duty 101, NATO’s Arcade Fire, and Sesame Streeting Apple (Around the Web for November 2)
• Harlow Shapley and the Scale of the Universe (Picture Essay of the Day)
• The New Breed of Coyote: 5 Questions for Roland Kays, Curator of Mammals at the New York State Museum
• The Attack of Jellyfish, The Attack Ads of 1800, Blago, Goodbye Newspapers, and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Around the Web for November 1)
• Reexamining Gene Patents and DNA as a Product of Nature
• African Fiction in America Today: Five Questions for Postcolonial Literature Scholar E. Kim Stone
• Dawn of the Day of the Dead (Picture Essay of the Day)
• 2010 Campaign Attack Ads Revisited
• Lawsuits Against 4-Year-Olds, Gorilla Videos, Reality Check, Tweeting Everest, and When Announcers Go Wild (Around the Web for October 29)
• Democrats at 53 in the Senate, Republicans +53 in the House (Some Bold and Not-so-Bold Election 2010 Projections)
• Sinning and Urban Sprawling in Las Vegas (Picture Essay of the Day)
• The Shady (Rick Scott) vs. the Reckless (Alex Sink) for Florida Governor (2010 Campaign Attack Ads of the Day)
• The Haunted Libraries Series Revisited
• Science Up Front: Haecheon Choi on the Aerial Design and Dynamics of the Flying Fish
• How the Ballot May Save the Democratic Majority
• China Beats America (x3), Sex and Climate Change, Olive Independence, Hating Obama, and an 82-Year-Old Cell Phone (Around the Web for October 28)
• Buckyballs are Everywhere!
• Protecting Our Youth from Antigay Oppression
• will.i.am Deep in the Heart of Texas: Yes We Can for Governor Rick Perry? (2010 Campaign Attack Ad of the Day)
• Cement Making (Picture of the Day)
• Of Dystopia, Utopia, Aldous Huxley, and True Love: 5 Questions for Filmmaker Mary Ann Braubach
• Lice, Baby Names, Tony Blair’s Autograph, Saddam’s NPR Addiction, Trans Fats, and Sneezing Monkeys (Around the Web for October 27)
• Conservation Success in the Shadow of Species Extinction
• It’s Better Now and the Gay Suicide “Epidemic”: 5 Questions for Psychologist Ritch Savin-Williams
• Urban Etiquette: Stay to the Right
• First Launch of Saturn I (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Buck vs. Bennet: Outrage and Fear in Colorado (2010 Campaign Attack Ads of the Day)
• Paul Dies, Twix, Iowa’s Judges, Facebooking in Russia, and Italian Miniskirts (Around the Web for October 26)
• Point and Counterpoint: A Forum on Proposition 19 and the Legalization of Marijuana
• Medical Cannabis: 5 Questions for Pain Researcher Mark Ware
• Reefer Madness and the Prohibition of Marijuana in the United States
• The Case Against California’s Proposition 19
• Milton Friedman and Proposition 19
• Ending the Prohibition of Marijuana: A Familiar Story
• Brewer & Shipley, “One Toke Over the Line” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• The Role of Neuroimaging in Understanding the Effects of Cannabis on the Brain
• The End of Smallpox (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Quinn v. Brady for Illinois Governor: Where Glee and Billy Madison Make Cameos (2010 Campaign Attack Ad of the Day)
• Debunking Myths About the Physiological Effects of Marijuana: 5 Questions for Neurobiologist Margaret Haney
• Drug Legalization and the Right to Control Your Body
• The Time Has Come For Proposition 19
• Proposition 19 Will Damage Kids’ Brains
• The Chinese Professor and America’s China Syndrome (2010 Campaign Attack Ad of the Day)
• What What What? and the Era of Mad King George III (Picture Essay of the Day)
• The Cuban Missile Crisis (Picture of the Day)
• Hurt v. Perriello in Virginia-5: Shocking, Hair-Raising, and Rubber Stamping (2010 Campaign Attacks Ads of the Day)
• Science Up Front: Zeresenay Alemseged on the Afar and Early Hominin Environments
• Dive with Whale Sharks in Mozambique
• In Search of Cool Mums & Dads
• Seeing Spots: The Science Behind Coat Patterns in Big Cats
• Sestak v. Toomey in Pennsyvlania: The Wall Street Bailout and Dog Poop (2010 Campaign Attacks Ads of the Day)
• The Coin Minting Process (Picture of the Day)
• Rebuilding the Jobs Pipeline
• Murray vs. Rossi in Washington: A Matter of Trust (2010 Campaign Attack Ads of the Day)
• Sydney Opera House (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Timothy Leary’s Dead
• Pomeroy v. Berg Starring in Don’t Drill Baby Drill and Not the North Dakota Way (2010 Campaign Attack Ads of the Day)
• Sifakas: Madagascar’s Leaping Lemurs (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Willie Nelson, “Dark as a Dungeon” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Alaska: From Seward’s Folly to 49th State (Picture Essay of the Day)
• The Taxer (Jerry Brown) vs. the Spender (Meg Whitman) for California Governor: 2010 Campaign Attack Ads of the Day
• The Decline of Creativity in the United States: 5 Questions for Educational Psychologist Kyung Hee Kim
• Libertarianism and Abortion, Same-Sex Marriage, and the Tea Party: 5 Questions for Cato Institute Executive Vice President David Boaz
• The Rocks and Ripples of Glacier National Park
• Science Up Front: Raju Tomer and Detlev Arendt on Worm Brains and the Evolution of the Cerebral Cortex
• The Execution of Mata Hari (Picture Essay of the Day)
• The Pathological Liar (Sharron Angle) v. the Illegal Aliens’ Best Friend (Harry Reid) in Nevada: Campaign 2010 Attack Ads of the Day
• The Science of Climate Change: 5 Questions for Climatologist Michael E. Mann
• Britannica Beer and the Brewing Process (Picture of the Day)
• Manchin v. Raese in West Virginia: Taking Aim at Obama and “Hickey” Stop Obama Ads (2010 Campaign Attack Ads of the Day)
• The Drifters, “Save the Last Dance for Me” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• The 20-Year-Old Frozen Embryo: Extending the Boundaries of Human Biology
• The New United Nations Security Council
• Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends (5 Questions for Journalist and Author Tom Segev)
• Kinzinger vs. Halvorson: Kneecapping and Hiding in Illinois-11 (Campaign 2010 Attack Ads of the Day)
• National Fossil Day: The Life of Bygone Eras (Picture Essay of the Day)
• The Pork-Meister (Blunt) vs. Wrong Way Robin (Carnahan) in Missouri (Campaign 2010 Attack Ads of the Day)
• 5 Questions for Geophysicist Eric Calais on the Newly Discovered Fault in Haiti
• Tapping the Keg: The 200th Anniversary of Oktoberfest (Picture of the Day)
• Traffic, “John Barleycorn Must Die” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• In Defense of Israel: A Reply to Neve Gordon
• The Jesus Seminar: A 25 Year Quest for the Irrelevant Jesus
• Blumenthal v. McMahon in Connecticut: Monday’s Wrestlemania Smackdown 2010 Campaign Attack Ads of the Day
• Exploring Our Planet: Earth Science Week 2010 (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Oklahoma! A Beloved Classic Film Turns 55
• An “Apartheid State” and Academic Freedom in Israel: 5 Questions for Israeli Academic and Activist Neve Gordon
• The Honourable Henry Cavendish: “Inflammable Air” and Weighing the Earth (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Toxic Spill in Hungary, Obama/Clinton 2012, and Bunnies in Cups: Weekly Web Roundup for October 8
• Murkowski the Sore Loser (2010 Campaign Attack Ad of the Day)
• Science Up Front: Peter Skov on the Suckling Embryos and Reproductive Adaptations of the European Eelpout
• Grannies Against War: The History and Mission of the Granny Peace Brigade
• Russ Feingold and Ron Johnson Starring in 57 Lawyers and “His Own Words” (2010 Campaign Attack Ads of the Day)
• Remembering the Achille Lauro Hijacking (Picture of the Day)
• Liberace, “Chopsticks” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• PTSD in War Veterans: 5 Questions for Psychiatrist and U.S. Army Col. Charles C. Engel
• When Your Own Words Are Your Worst Enemy: Kendrick Meek’s Classic Ad Against Charlie Crist (2010 Campaign Attack Ads of the Day)
• Beast of Kings (Picture Essay of the Day)
• 5 Questions for Dan Savage on the Bullying Epidemic and the It Gets Better Project
• Jack Conway and Rand Paul in the Health-Care/Medicare Wars (2010 Campaign Attack Ads of the Day)
• Electron Microscopy: Seeing to the Heart of Matter (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Assessing British Support for the War in Afghanistan
• The First Amendment, Separation of Church and State, and Same-Sex Marriage: 5 Questions for Law Professor Eugene Volokh
• Helping the “Other” Casualties of War: 5 Questions for American Widow Project Founder Taryn Davis
• Prostitution, Barack Obama’s Biggest Fan, and Trial Lawyers in the Louisiana Senate Race (2010 Attack Ad of the Day)
• Janis Joplin, “Ball and Chain” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• The Nobel Prize Selection Process (Picture of the Day)
• Britannica Congratulates Zaha Hadid (Former Member of our Board of Advisors) on her Stirling Prize Win
• Baleen Whales: Genes of Toothlessness
• U.S. Guatemalan Syphilis Study Recalls Dark Medical Past
• World War I Finally Ending, America the Obese, and Family Ties in North Korea and Britain: Weekly Web Roundup for October 1
• Freedom From Empire: Assessing Post-Colonial Africa (5 Questions for Sociologist Ebenezer Obadare)
• Mark Kirk and Alexi Giannoulias Starring in Lies, Corrpution, and Driver Error (Campaign 2010 Attack Ads of the Day)
• Yosemite National Park: 120 Years of Preservation (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Benjamin Roth’s The Great Depression
• Mourning in America and the Softer Side of Negativity (2010 Attack Ad of the Day)
• A Journey Through Nigeria (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Mad Dogs: Our Canine Companions as Models of Psychiatric Disorders
• Taliban Dan, When They Lie, and the Ads of Alan Grayson in Florida-8 (Campaign 2010 Attack Ads of the Day)
• Contemporary Japan: 5 Questions for Historian and Author Jeffrey Kingston
• Mir Hossein Mousavi and Reform in Iran (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Happy Birthday, Republic of West Florida
• A Klingon Opera? Yes, a Klingon Opera.
• Ellmers and the Ground Zero Mosque in North Carolina-2 (Campaign 2010 Attack Ad of the Day)
• The Firing of Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov: A Reader’s Guide
• California Dreaming (Picture Essay of the Day)
• The Carpenters, “Close to You” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Waiting for Superman to Change the Job Culture?
• Nurturing the Spirit in the Age of the Web
• E = mc²: The Unforgettable Equation of Einstein’s Miracle Year (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Travel Slow in Italy and Stay in Orvieto
• The Pledge to America, Parting the Red Sea, and Seats Disguised as Fans: Weekly Web Roundup for September 24
• Nobelist Aung San Suu Kyi: Lessons From a Tireless Pro-Democracy Activist’s Life (Picture of the Day)
• Led Zeppelin, “Dazed and Confused” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Louis Sorkin (Grossly) Lets the Bed Bugs Bite
• Discovering Dante
• Sir John Boyd Orr’s Crusade to End World Hunger (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Protecting the World’s Treasures: 5 Questions for World Heritage Centre Deputy Director Kishore Rao
• 10 Downing Street: Seat of Power for 275 Years (Picture of the Day)
• My Opinion, Right or Wrong
• New Britannica: Better, Easier, and You’re Part of It
• Equal Time for Cats (Viral Video Interlude Part Deux)
• Mapping Vancouver (Picture of the Day)
• The Jefferson Airplane, “Let Me In” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Talented Jumping Dogs and a Catchy Tune (Viral Video Interlude)
• Reviving the Aral Sea
• Wind Power and the Modern Wind Turbine (Picture Essay of the Day)
• The Alternative Vote System Explained
• Talking Football, and Thinking Too Much
• The Camp David Accords and Making Middle East Peace (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Science Up Front: John Mitani on Chimpanzee Warfare in Kibale National Park
• Jimi Hendrix, “Purple Haze” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Filling Job Vacancies Today & Tomorrow
• Say Yes to Alternative Vote: A Reply to Matthew Elliott
• Fidelity Through Prayer: 5 Questions for Psychologist Frank D. Fincham
• Viva México! Viva la Independencia! Mexico Celebrates 200 Years of Independence (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Jerry Lee Lewis, “This Train” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• The HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin: On the Shores of the Galapagos Islands (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Taking the Turkey Plunge
• The 1956 Ford Thunderbird: The Classic Among the Classic Cars
• The Enthusiasm Gap in the U.S. 2010 Midterm Elections
• The Case For Alternative Vote: 5 Questions for Unlock Democracy Director Peter Facey
• The Case Against Alternative Vote: 5 Questions for NO2AV Leader Matthew Elliott
• OPEC at 50 (Picture Essay of the Day)
• The Archies, “Sugar Sugar” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Purple Loosestrife (Toxic Tuesdays: A Weekly Guide to Poison Gardens)
• Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, What are the Most Charitable Countries of Them All?
• Old Faithful and Yellowstone National Park (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Turbulent Priests
• The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: 5 Questions for SETI Senior Astronomer and Britannica Contributor Seth Shostak
• The Butterflies of Chartwell
• Remembering the 9/11 Attacks: Where Were You That Day? (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Waves Are For Surfing, Not Elections
• The Latest Fashion Trends and Cross-Cultural Fashion: 5 Questions for Britannica Contributor Valerie Steele
• The NFL Season Kicks Off: Are You Ready For Some Football? Or, At Least, A Thursday-Night Partaaay?
• Kicking off Fashion Week With a Primer on the Fashion Industry
• Using Music to Teach Politics: 5 Questions for Political Scientist Chris Soper
• Off-Shore Vancouver (Picture/Video Essay of the Day)
• Congratulations to Britannica Contributor and 2010 Hugo Award Winner Frederik Pohl
• Science Up Front: Abderrazak El Albani on the Discovery of Ancient Multicellular Life
• Peter Sellers: A Pink Panther Who Was Not a Beumb (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Turkish Delight
• The End of New France
• September 7, 1940: The Blitz Begins
• Benjamin the Thylacine and Australia’s National Threatened Species Day (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Edwin Starr, “War” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Why is Labor Day in September? (Picture of the Day)
• (Professor) Bootsy Collins, “Mothership Connection” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Two Good Books About Greece
• Hoots For Owls (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Adventure Holidays in Iceland
• Mediterraneo (World War II Films from the Other Side)
• A Republican Wave Coming in 2010 Midterms, Pundits Say
• Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Torosaurus is Triceratops? 5 Questions for Paleontologist John Scannella
• Yamato (World War II Films from the Other Side)
• Looking Back at the Beginning of World War II (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Veni. Vidi. Vici. (I came. I saw. I conquered.)
• Campaign 2010: It’s the Stupid, Stupid
• Come and See (World War II Films from the Other Side)
• Stalingrad (World War II Films from the Other Side)
• Polish Workers, Solidarity, and the Beginning of the Fall of the Soviet Union (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Remembering Diana: Humanitarian, Princess, and Pop Icon
• Melbourne Day: From the Enterprize to Australia’s Foodie Capital in 175 Years (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Devils on the Doorstep (World War II Films from the Other Side)
• Why Do More People Think Obama Is a Muslim?
• Banks’ Self-Dealing Super-Charged Financial Crisis
• Hopefully My Mother-in-Law Will Like Brazil Instead (Picture Essay of the Day)
• World War II from the Other Side (Film Series)
• Robert Johnson, “Crossroads” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Smoking “Not a Primary Necessity,” Cuba Declares
• Race in the Age of Obama: 5 Questions for Princeton Political Scientist Melissa Harris-Lacewell
• Happy 90th to the 19th Amendment (Picture Essay of the Day)
• All or Nothing: Katharine Hepburn’s Pants
• Connery, Sean Connery Turns 80 (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Dolphin Slaughter in Japan
• Touring Turkey
• For Mosques, ‘Anywhere But There’ Echoes Far Beyond Ground Zero
• The Attack of the Killer Tomato Hornworm
• Pluto: A Little Wanderer at the Edge of the Solar System (Picture Essay of the Day)
• AC/DC, “Back in Black” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Remembering Hurricane Katrina Five Years On (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Science Up Front: Ian A. Graham and Dianna Bowles on the Genetics of Artemisia annua and Antimalarial Drug Production
• Victoria Falls and the ‘devil’s armchair’
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