Carl Paladino, Republican candidate for governor of New York, on Sept. 27. Mark Lennihan/Associated Press hide caption

Google has erected a new interactive billboard in New York's Times Square as part of "Watch This Space," the company's campaign to promote its lesser-known display advertisement services. via Google hide caption

Andre Geim (left) and Konstantin Novoselov won the Nobel Prize for Physics Tuesday for their work on graphene, a sheet of carbon atoms with novel electrical, physical and chemical properties. Jon Super/AP hide caption

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Three speakers of the newly identified language Koro gather at a house in Kichang village in Arunachal Pradesh, India. K. David Harrison discovered the language in 2008, which has a few hundred speakers. "It has basically been completely unnoticed by outsiders and by scientists," he says. Courtesy of Chris Rainier hide caption

Former service member Anthony Woods (left) listens during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Since his discharge from the U.S. Army, Woods ran for Congress in California, and now he collaborates with groups trying to repeal the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy that bans gays and lesbians from serving openly. Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images hide caption

Gilbert Stuart's famous "Landsdowne portrait" of George Washington, painted in 1796. AP/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution hide caption

Those signature horn-rimmed glasses, pilfered at a book party last night, have been returned to Jonathan Franzen. Greg Martin hide caption