February 13, 2014
- To explain how many medals a nation will win...the authors considered a nation's population and per-capita income.
- Every time a freeze sets in, global warming skeptics crow—a brief explanation of why they're wrong.
- Terrifying space footage of England, where wind gusts from 80-100 mph are expected this week.
- Protests over ineffective government—a result of U.S. and EU intervention—sweep Bosnia.
- Reversing a 50-year trend, wives are more educated than their husbands—most prevalent among newlyweds.
- Many non-Western countries, from India to Brazil, consider Facebook a kind of online dating app.
- From a behavioral-economics perspective, borrowing can actually be easier than saving.
- Hundreds of recovering heroin users share their experiences.
- Q&A with a neuroethicist on when anti-love drugs are an appropriate measure.
- Archaeologists carbon-date bones to show domesticated camels did not exist in Biblical times—a point scholars have been arguing since 1899.
- Disney fires the voice of Donald Duck in Egypt after the actor posted an anti-Israel tweet.
- The top 100 most searched for out-of-print books in 2013—once again topped by Madonna's Sex.
- Hemingway's hamburger recipe is indicative of his worldliness.
- How to survive falling through the ice.
- Official Chinese report on environmental conditions ranks Beijing "barely suitable" for living.
- The most hated bands of the last 30 years.
- Song of the Week: "Always Forgetting With You (The Bridge Song)" by Spiritualized.