This week's blog assortment turned out purely aspirational, between Iran's greatest living poet, Ada Lovelace Day, the return of Linda Lavin, and Anjelica Huston talking about what she knows now that she didn't at 20.

Scream Against Bloody Murder: Today marks the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on Genocide.   For most of the last year, Christine Amanpour, CNN’s Chief International Correspondent has been conducting interviews for her documentary “Scream Bloody Murder,” which premiered December 4, on CNN.  In the Washington Post’s Guest Voices on Faith, Amanpour writes that when she returned from…