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A rescue worker walks among debris after landslides at Caleme neighborhood in Teresopolis, Brazil. Driving rains sent tons of rusty red earth sliding into Brazilian mountain towns, killing hundreds of people and leaving many more missing. (Photo by Felipe Dana / AP)

10 years in, Wikipedia just getting started

As Wikipedia nears its 10th birthday, it has about 17 million articles — 3.5 million of them in English — making it the largest encyclopedia in the history of encyclopedias, if that’s indeed what it is.

Washington Post

Wikipedia: plenty of fans, even among critics

NPR

Rock-munching mollusks a model for artificial bones

A tiny marine creature called a chiton might hold the key to better artificial teeth and bones. This rather unexpected possibility comes from a relatively new branch of science called biomaterials.

NPR

Brazil floods kill at least 350 people

The Brazil floods that have killed at least 350 people come just after news reports revealed the federal government cut its budget for disaster prevention and preparation measures by almost a fifth.

Christian Science Monitor

Brazil floods

BBC

Mudslides leave hundreds dead near Rio de Janeiro

Guardian

Outages in storm’s wake

A classic New England nor’easter promised to disrupt life after knocking out power for tens of thousands and paralyzing major rail and air travel.

Boston Globe

Winter weather slams Northeast

MSNBC

Through prayer and praise, Obama calls for unity, civility

President Obama arrived to help Tucson’s 1 million residents get beyond the tragedy that has interrupted their lives and thrown the entire country into fits of mourning.

Globeandmail.com

Obama: ‘What we can’t do is use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on each other.’

MSNBC

NATION

Judge says government need not disclose air traveler security images

A federal judge in Washington has ruled the Department of Homeland Security can keep from public view 2,000 “whole-body” images of air travelers screened at checkpoints.

CNN

Car-charging network grows in Austin

A handful of municipalities around the United States are offering a first glimpse of how the need for power outlets might reshape cities in the years ahead.

Christian Science Monitor

Immigrant drivers face an uncertain road

A decision by the Department of Public Safety will cancel the commercial driver’s licenses of immigrants who lack certain documents — even though they are legally authorized to work in the U.S.

Houston Chronicle

TRAGEDY IN TUCSON

‘Blood libel’ claim stirs controversy

Sarah Palin’s newest Facebook page video scolds critics who say her high-firepower rhetoric could have contributed to Arizona shooting rampage.

USA TODAY

The real lesson of the Tucson tragedy

How many times have we heard this story? The one about people rising to the occasion to save a life. This is how normal fights back, by rejecting fear and choosing courage.

TIME

POLITICS

Poll: President Obama’s approval rises as economy improves

President Barack Obama is getting a bump in his approval ratings from an improving economy but Americans want him to focus on reducing debt and spending, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed.

Reuters

Ethics watchdog files complaint against Reps. Fitzpatrick and Sessions

An ethics watchdog group filed a complaint against Reps. Mike Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., and Pete Sessions, R-Texas, for allegedly attending a fundraiser while the 112th Congress was being sworn in.

The Hill

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

David Nelson of ‘Ozzie and Harriet’ fame dies at 74

David Nelson, who played the elder son on the 1950s sitcom “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet,” has died at 74.

People

San Francisco gay history museum finds home, identity

Long recognized as “one of the great ground zeroes of queer liberation,” the Castro becomes the site of the nation’s first lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history museum today.

San Francisco Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

Global warming waning? 2010 was tied as warmest year on record

Last year tied 2005 as the warmest year on record, federal climatologists said, adding that an analysis of the year‘s data strengthened the notion that greenhouse gases continue to warm Earth’s climate.

Christian Science Monitor

Global warming’s warning: a dangerous millennium ahead

LiveScience

Flipper tags are damaging to penguins

The standard way of tagging penguins for science — putting bands around their flippers — affects their survival and reproduction.

BBC

EDUCATION

Unafraid of Virginia Woolf

Katherine Boutry didn’t stumble on a group of Mrs. Dalloway fans at her college. In fact, she broke the norm of many community colleges that teach writing by having students respond to nonfiction works.

Inside Higher Ed

Fla. ranks 5th in new national report on education quality

Florida ranks fifth in a new national report on education quality released today. The annual report grades the 50 states and the District of Columbia on their education policies and performance.

Orlando Sentinel

SPORTS

Vikings will pay for a roofless stadium

The Minnesota Vikings are willing to pay about a third of the cost of their desired new stadium, but won’t help pay for a roof even if state lawmakers insist it needs one.

Star Tribune

Cavaliers humiliated by loss to Lakers

The Cleveland Cavaliers’ most lopsided loss ever has their players feeling humiliated, dejected and running for cover.

Reuters

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Andrew J. Rotherham):

States’ rights and states’ wrongs on school reform

TIME

Column (Eric Reguly):

Murdoch’s UK media ambitions make enemies

Globeandmail.com

Column (Jon Carroll):

My shiny new Kindle

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Zachary Miesel):

Why more data doesn’t always mean better care

TIME

Column (William Pesek):

World’s ATMs pump billions into wrong places

Bloomberg

Column (Matt Fuhrmann and Todd S. Sechser):

Would a nuclear Iran really be so dangerous?

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Tom Philpott):

Industrial agriculture demanding free pass to crap in your backyard

Grist

Column (Daniel Indiviglio):

Why isn’t the Internet helping the unemployed?

The Atlantic

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GOOD NEWS

Future of food could be bright

The world could feed the predicted 2050 population of 9 billion people, according to two agricultural research organizations. The new report overturns assumptions about the state of global farming.

Nature

Captain America and suicide prevention

In the latest Marvel tale, the character finds himself testing his mettle against insurmountable odds, while saving the life of a boy who is considering suicide.

USA TODAY

Progress toward finding a blood test for Down syndrome

A new blood test may help pregnant women who are at high risk for having a baby with Down syndrome avoid more invasive tests such as amniocentesis and chronic villus sampling.

WebMD

A new test for Down syndrome?

ABC News