December 9, 2013
By The Morning News
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- Ukraine sends interior troops into Kiev, where protesters still block entrances to some government buildings.
- A trip through the periodic table partially explains why we value gold over almost everything else.
- Nadine Gordimer: "What is missing in the general view of Mandela is his wit, his quick humor."
- Income growth improved for all South Africans after Mandela's 1994 election, but sufficiently more so for whites and Asians.
- New York Port Authority adds rare snowy owls, which threaten flight safety, to kill list, in addition to swans and geese.
- Like wilding before it, knockout is an urban legend "fueled by white fear of black youth."
- The launch code for U.S. nukes was 00000000 for 20 years.
- Living with crazy ants requires either coming to terms with them crawling all over you all the time, or just losing your mind.
- Hunt for “McCandless pilgrims”—young people who want to see the abandoned bus where Christopher McCandless died, as in In The Wild.
- Damien Hirst applies to build an entire town in his name—with 750 homes, a school, shops—off the coast of England.
- Bird's-eye pictures of people sunbathing on a beach.
- Details of Rawabi, the first new Palestinian city to be constructed since Israel captured the West Bank in 1967.
- Fort McMurray, Alberta, has the most male demographic of any city in North America; it also has the highest per capita video-streaming rate.
- Smarm should be understood as a type of bullshit, then. It is a kind of moral and ethical misdirection.
- Rob Sheffield takes apart "Blurred Lines."
- Victorian parents hide in pictures to keep their babies still during portrait sessions.
- Love Actually is not actually romantic.
