December 18, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Officials connect North Korea to the Sony hack, but are reluctant to pursue further in the face of other negotiations.
- With screenings cancelled and no plans for video, killing The Interview could cost Sony $100 million.
- Sony should sell The Interview to Netflix and become a hero in the face of cyberbullying.
- Japanese stores limit customers to two packages of butter each, with shortages blamed on overworked cows.
- Texas plumbing company surprised to see one of its trucks turn up on the front lines of Syria's civil war.
- On the day of its final episode's release, "Serial" theories ranked from most to least plausible.
- If someone was poisoned, it’s not particularly likely that the murder was committed by a woman—but if a woman murders someone, it’s somewhat likely it was by poison.
- Travelers who gloat about seeing Cuba before it's "ruined" tend to fetishize poverty.
- US-Cuba reconciliation credited to Pope Francis.
- Thawed relations with Cuba have New Jersey law enforcement hopeful of capturing expat activist and convicted felon Assata Shakur.
- Governor's decision to ban fracking in New York is more about politics than science.
- Daniel Pantaleo killed Eric Garner, but so did capitalism's creation of a surplus population.
- Navigating the outwardly racist and the well-meaning.
- Journalist tries to sell the Occupy movement as a "buzzword sellout radical chic" start-up to tech investors.
- Previously, cheerleading was mostly for men at elite universities; women took over when men departed for WWII.
- Exploring 2014 with Google Trends' most-searched beers, books, memes, and gifs.
- "India's New Comic Book Hero Fights Rape, Rides on the Back of a Tiger."
