February 12, 2016
By The Morning News
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- Takeaways from the sixth Democratic debate: Clinton is specific, perhaps nobly; Sanders is all coffeehouse rage.
- Kanye West’s sneakers are currently a better investment than almost any other asset class.
- "Pharma bro" Martin Shkreli and Wu-Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah feud with videos.
- See also: The decline of the dangerous rapper.
- Nearly three thousand unaccompanied minor asylum seekers were deported from the UK over the past nine years.
- Use of online dating sites by 18- to 24-year-olds has nearly tripled since 2013, driven by the rise of mobile dating apps.
- Database of American marriages by occupation.
- As Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill meet today, a primer on the differences between the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
- In Houston, a city addicted to sugar and cars, one in five residents will be diabetic by 2040.
- Pharmaceutical mascots put a cute face on disgusting topics.
- TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin: The benefit of boredom is a chance to meet crackhead screenwriters.
- Congressman vapes during legislative session to argue against bill that would ban vaping on planes.
- Unsurprisingly, the Koch brothers are spending a fortune to fight solar power.
- Related: the toxic, polluting empire the Koch brothers built their fortune from.
- In Japan, only 12% of "unusual deaths" result in autopsies, meaning there is a higher chance crimes are being overlooked.
- Aboriginal people in Canada make up just 4% of the population, but account for half the victims of sex-trafficking.
- In as many as 40 states, tampons and female hygiene products are taxed as luxury items.
- Rebecca Solnit on the CDC’s new drinking guidelines.
- What Einstein’s “ripples” mean to non-physicists: "a pretty extraordinary claim" that requires extraordinary evidence.
- PhD comics explain gravitational waves with animation.
- John Waters on Valentine’s Day.
