February 1, 2016
By The Morning News
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- Polls point to Trump and Clinton winning Iowa's caucuses, though Iowa is notoriously difficult to poll.
- Iowa parties and Microsoft to launch an app tonight to replace a keypad system for reporting caucus results.
- FAQ for the Iowa caucuses—"a lot of debating and moving around."
- Trump's run for president looks improvised, but it's been planned for years, to a great deal focused on media tactics.
- Tracing the inception of a Russian rumor that the Norwegian state sponsors pedophilia.
- Map of the world's capitals in odd categories: zippers, pickpockets, brothels, avocados, accordions.
- Paris Review interview with Jane and Michael Stern, legendary authors behind the Roadfood travel guides.
- Uber experiments with giving drunk passengers confusing toys to cut down on driver assaults.
- Violating federal guidelines, the FBI regularly asks Muslims trying to attain citizenship to spy on their neighbors.
- Investigation finds that early January DHS raids on Central American women and children may have been unconstitutional.
- If nothing changes this month, Justice Clarence Thomas will go 10 years without asking a question from the bench.
- New York attorney general says what everyone else already knows: buying tickets to major events is a “fixed game.”
- Inside Super Bowl City, San Francisco’s high-security standing party for the 45-mile-away football game.
- California audits SeaWorld experimental lab that produces deformed fish.
- A day in the life of a hand model.
- See also: "What I learned from being a stock-photography model."
- Locksmiths found on Google frequently are poorly trained subcontractors looking to fleece you.
- Beverly Hills urologist invents a $13,000 penis implant—the Penuma—and has all the business he can handle.
- In the ‘90s, Karl Ove Knausgaard threw up in Björk’s bathroom.
- The most recognizable phrase on the celebrity internet is “Come to Brazil,” and it means nothing more than "come to Brazil."
