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Thursday, March 21, 2013

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Today: Did I Abandon My Creative Class Theory? Not So Fast, Joel Kotkin , Report: Leno Out, Fallon In , Universe 80 Million Years Older Than Thought
Cheat Sheet: Afternoon

March 21, 2013
WAH

Have you had a rough day? Go ahead, let it out. Sheryl Sandberg does it. So do a lot of people—even men! Peggy Drexler breaks down the do's and don'ts of getting teary with your coworkers. Plus, tell us your own weepy workplace stories.

WONK FIGHT

The famous urban theorist saw his ideas debunked by Joel Kotkin in The Daily Beast yesterday. Not so fast. In a rebuttal, Florida says Kotkin has it all wrong—young, hip people are the key to reinvigorating America's cities, and the creative class hasn't been a failure at all.

LATE-NIGHT WARS

Howard Stern as Tonight Show host, we hardly knew ye. The New York Times reports that NBC has made a commitment to bring the Tonight Show back to New York, replacing Jay Leno with Jimmy Fallon as host. Though the deal has yet to be cemented, several "senior television executives" said that the switch is expected to take place by the fall of 2014, at the latest. Meanwhile in New York, NBC has quietly begun constructing a new studio for the Tonight Show at its headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Guess Leno's NBC-bashing jokes went over worse than we thought.

LOOKING GOOD ... CONSIDERING

Nothing like slapping 80 million years on the universe's age to make you feel young. According to a new study released Thursday, scientists miscalculated the universe's age by 80 million years—meaning it's actually 13.81 billion years old. The officials from the European Space Agency's Planck space probe who ran the study looked at the "afterglow" of the big bang—generally recognized as the most plausible theory of how the universe was born. The $900 million Planck telescope used in the study has been taking in data from the sky for 15 1/2 months. George Efstathiou, a director at the University of Cambridge who announced the news, said its importance is earth shattering. "We've uncovered a fundamental truth of the universe," he said.

GUN-CONTROL CRAZE

After Sandy Hook, author Stephen King published an e-book imploring Americans to find a middle ground on gun control. Since very few people read that e-book and since, just this week, police thwarted what could have been yet another massacre at the University of Central Florida, he's taken to the Bangor Daily News to ask again. King clarifies that, as a gun owner and deer hunter himself, he is "dead against repeal of the Second Amendment," but that the truth is, the laws proposed to curb gun violence are not aimed at doing so—and if they were the Supreme Court would overturn them. "Stop with the paranoia, please," he begs. "If they stand (and they probably will), the hunters can still hunt, the target shooters can still shoot, and homeowners can still have a weapon or two at hand for defense and protection. The rest of us will be a little safer." 


NEW STUDY
Men's Falling Incomes Linked to Single Parents
Research connects dip in salaries to the decline of two-parent households.
QUESTIONABLE LEADERSHIP
NYU Prez's Staff Turns Against Him
In a vote of no confidence.
I WAS KIDDING
Sheriff Defends Obama Assassination Joke
Calls uproar over the quip "absurd."
NO TIME
JCPenney Pleads Patience
As turnaround effort struggles.
CLUCK QUACK
Chicken Has Duck for a Father
Scientists in Dubai crossbred the animals.
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