January 13, 2015

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Obama tries to counter the GOP’s glass-is-half-empty conversation.

Minute-by-minute takeaways from the State of the Union.

In case you missed it: CNN previewed the State of the Union in the style of a Wes Anderson movie.

Obama spotlights criminal justice reform as an avenue for progress even in chaotic election year.

Between health care and climate action, Obama will go down as a pivotal president.

According to Spotify streams, fans of David Bowie chose to remember him with “Heroes,” followed by “Let’s Dance” and “Life on Mars?”

Twitter science proves Canadians are more polite than Americans.

Iran releases the 10 US sailors held for entering its territorial waters.

NASA’s new Planetary Defense Coordination Office will oversee all of the space agency’s efforts to detect and track near-earth objects.

So far the Oregon militia members are fighting one another, not the federal government.

Western militia movements get political cover from fossil fuel companies that want to facilitate looser regulatory regimes.

Wednesday white paper: Analysis of many tweets finds “a sharp decline in hedonic state” when the weather’s above 70 degrees Fahrenheit. via

See also: The (totally not peer-reviewed) chocolate milk concussion-cure craze.

The word “cakeage” was added to OxfordDictionaries.com in 2015—that fee restaurants charge when you bring in your own cake.

Wanted criminal sends police a selfie, preferring it to a mugshot circulating on Facebook.

Defensive reactions to Cosby don’t just fail to hold water—they echo racism. #opinions

Photographs of many Martin Luther King Drives across America.

Ten prototypes of Londoners from the future, from solar-hacking grannies to floating residents of the Thames.

Per Se is among the worst food deals in New York. Thomas Keller slips to two stars in the Times:

New York’s top ticket-giver sees his base pay eclipsed 33 times by the amount of fines he’s generated for the city—$1.2 million.

Sorta related: Many small jets across both wings might be better than one big jet per wing.