December 23, 2013
- Marks & Spencer prompts outrage after allowing Muslim employees to refuse selling customers pork and alcohol.
- Following the Target breach, Chase would rather limit cardholders' purchases than invest in real security.
- Why Snapchat matters: Because an erasable internet is a comfort that's the polar opposite of Facebook.
- Scientists tout electroshock therapy as a way to stop remembering specific emotional memories.
- Activists in Iceland petition a peninsular highway to be built in "elf territory."
- A dialect quiz pins down your unique American accent to a set of three cities.
- With the fewest miles traveled and the highest fatality rate, why the U.S. is hell for cyclists.
- In the 1930s, Le Père Fouettard appeared in the United States under the translated name Father Flog or Spanky.
- Bracing for the Rosemary remake.
- Astronomy photo of the day: Saturn's potato-shaped moon, Prometheus, between its rings.
- Related: Forty-five years ago this week, the most iconic space photo was taken.
- Researchers work to ID the 2,240 suckers of an octopus, which uses its detachable third arm as a penis.
- A multimedia journey through the life of New Orleans bluesman Little Freddie King.
- The other words of the year.
- The animal-welfare organization wants to block the annual Possum Drop in Brasstown.