April 18, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Planet Kepler 186f, made of iron, rock, ice, and liquid water, is "potentially the most Earth-like planet we’ve yet found."
- Of the 2,028 days in Beijing between April 2008 and March 2014, only 25 had air considered “good” by US standards.
- Turkey's Ottoman Disneyland: "Cheerful and photogenic, if still somewhat empty."
- Rare video of people riding the full-loop water slide at New Jersey's injury- and death-prone Action Park.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez died yesterday at 87 at his home in Mexico City.
- NBA teams' value re-evaluated—for cost and emotional benefits—now that the Milwaukee Bucks are worth $550 million.
- Britain’s Ministry of Defence building is a massive office "camouflaging an exciting subterranean realm of secret tunnels, bunkers, and a perfectly preserved Tudor wine cellar."
- Yelp reviewers who don’t mention dessert give an average score of 3.6; reviewers who mention a dessert give an average of 3.9.
- Science has shown that weather impacts our mood, so a nice day can lead to a nice review. A rainy day can mean a miserable one.
- Whoopi Goldberg now writes a column about marijuana for the Denver Post.
- Interactive infographic: How Americans die.
- Rob Ford’s re-election campaign begins.
- After realizing ecological collapse is imminent, former activist emerges with "dark, ecological vision" of Uncivilization.
- Vintage photographs of women enlisted to help promote new cars.
- Scientists studying how animals converse find evidence that parrots and dolphins name their offspring.
- Everything you wanted to know about the origins, fame, and making of Adventure Time.
- John Jeremiah Sullivan hunts down Elvie Thomas and Geeshie Wiley, musicians identified on three ultrarare records made in 1930 and ’31.
