December 22, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Sony Pictures pivots, with attorney saying The Interview will be released in some format.
- Hollywood should let the world know "we prize our goofy movies, along with the important ones, and the freedoms that they represent."
- For smaller nations, cyber warfare proves to be a better investment than conventional weapons systems.
- New York's de Blasio faces delicate test as cops turn their backs on the mayor over support of protesters.
- The person with blood on his hands for the murder of two New York City cops is the murderer.
- Texas's most famous, possibly richest trial attorney still going strong at age 89.
- New Zealand to wipe out all rats and other mammalian predators.
- UPS to deliver 34 million packages today, attempting to correct last year's Christmas debacle with new sorting systems.
- In Oregon, where "Christmas tree plantations" were first born, Christmas trees outnumber humans 12 to 1.
- Because the Arctic is changing rapidly, it’s hard to predict which traits will be most important for, say, a population of grolar bears.
- Journalist's account from Jonathan Coulton's ultimate nerd cruise.
- US hotel and travel companies see big opportunities in a newly opened Cuba.
- Medicare cuts funding to hospitals with the highest rates of infection, inadvertently punishing hospitals with the toughest tasks.
- "Live From Lockdown" is the closest thing to a social network for federal inmates, despite prisoners' lack of web access.
- Self-published author finds book suppressed by Amazon for too many hyphens, which "impact the book's readability."
- Terrific account of the discovery of new material Graphene and what it can be used for in the future.
- See also: Product review of the invisible backpack
of white privilege,
from L.L. Bean.
