April 22, 2014
By The Morning News
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- FDA approval of the first powdered alcohol, Palcohol, might have been made in error.
- Putin signed recently two bills: one making it harder for non-Russian speakers to gain citizenship and the other expediting the process for Russian speakers.
- LeBron James, the NFL, quarterbacks, and the Yankees: the most popular athlete, sport, position, and team, according to Google.
- While the most popular girls' names have changed dramatically over the past century, boys' names have remained about the same.
- How D&D changed me.
- Related: "Everyone in this room is waiting for you to do something cool," the Dungeon Master gently prods.
- The Boy Scouts revoked their charter for a church-sponsored scout troop after the community refused to fire their openly gay scout leader.
- The Chesapeake Bay—full of "dead zones" so low in oxygen almost no animal life can survive—is a political hot potato.
- Public squares are good for democracy, and America doesn’t have nearly enough.
- The silencing of Occupy Wall Street protestor Cecily McMillan.
- There are places in the United States where nobody lives: a fantasy map for New Yorkers.
- Snakes eat their tails because their usual diet is smaller snakes.
- If tech really is a bubble, would the rest of the country be harmed if it burst?
- Gabriel García Márquez’s journalism, not his fiction, defines his legacy.
- Ukraine's odd pressers.
- Some US officials believe German companies helped train Russian special ops now in Ukraine.
