December 3, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Contrary to popular belief, the US divorce rate has been declining over the last 20 years.
- A poor Moroccan kid in France is much more likely to move into the middle class than a child born into a poor family in Mississippi.
- Britons joining Amazon Anonymous— pledging to enjoy an “Amazon-free” Christmas—commit to spending £2.59 million elsewhere.
- China bans wordplay in attempt at pun control, to prevent “cultural and linguistic chaos.”
- Articles from Nature and 48 other scientific journals are now free.
- Tourist borrows key to New York's Gramercy Park, and now a bastion of exclusion is on Google Maps.
- Twenty years ago, scientists predicted growing climate extremes and more disasters; we now live in that world.
- Southern California gives thanks for first rain day in a long time; LA expects the biggest rainfall in two years.
- See also: Yesterday's lyrical essay on TMN about the plight of California's fish and farmers.
- Poets remain irrelevant as long as they continue to wall themselves off, linguistically and culturally, from the world.
- Rise of the "beer mile" has little to do with alcohol, lots to do with elite runners trying to beat each other.
- In the high-stakes world of competitive bass fishing, cheaters hide previously caught fish underwater.
- Nine of 13 Cleveland cops who fired 137 shots at an unarmed black couple in 2012 now claim to be victims of racial discrimination.
- South Korean Christian groups rebuild a Christmas tree that North Korea has threatened with military artillery.
- Gas stations increasingly house gourmet restaurants to attract customers.
- This week's TMN gallery, "Woman in My Heart," portraits of kothis in South India.
- Pizza Hut debuts "the world's first subconscious menu," with eye-tracking tablets.
- Double-barrel cooking cannon shoots shrimp through jets of egg, flour, and fire to land fully cooked on a plate.
