Headlines from February 28, 2014

UN reports 300,000 Nigerians uprooted and displaced as a result of Boko Harem violence.
Unlike Standard Oil and Carnegie Steel, Facebook and Google are everywhere and nowhere, making today’s image of “the worker” similarly invisible.
President Abe reconsiders Japan’s official apology to “comfort women,” aka, military sex slaves.
Related: The past week’s world news explained, from Yanukovych’s flight to Erdogan’s scandal, in time for your weekend dinner dates. #video
Stunning pictures of the Northern Lights currently trickling into the United Kingdom. #photography
RyanAir plans to launch $17 flights from Europe to the U.S., with seats not much smaller than major carriers’.
Kickstarter campaign for a reinvented wheel.
The semi-sanctioned voyeurism. The worlds you’re privy to. Writer experiences week in the life of an Uber cab driver.
Archaeologists discover world’s oldest cheese on the chest of a Chinese mummy dating back to 1615 BC.
Nearly 141 trillion calories of food—1,249 calories per capita per day—go to waste every year in the U.S.
FDA proposes design changes to nutrition labels, with bigger emphasis on total calories, added sugars, and certain nutrients.
Varying prices of pizza in the neighborhoods of Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.
See also: Response to Spike Lee’s gentrification rant.
Online exam will test your eyes and write you a prescription, all for 75% less than an in-person test.
Evidence suggests John Steinbeck spied for the CIA, using his fame as access to various parts of Europe.
Arriving Monday: TMN’s 2014 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes; grab your brackets and T-shirt today.
Television is not the new novel. Television is the old novel. TV can never do what the novel does, much as the novel can never do the same as sex.