February 14, 2012: Morning
- Monsanto found guilty in French court of poisoning a farmer with weedkiller.
- Five places where Valentine's Day is forbidden.
- We're all out of money, but not love: proposing National Love Day, the anti-Valentine's.
- Until the 1930s, Taiwanese aborigines often would bestow their loved ones with a severed head.
- Ayn Rand explains love.
- Very weird Gulliver's Travels Valentine cards from 1939.
- British researchers ascertain the "Rapunzel Number," the ratio that determines the shape of a ponytail.
- Typo in Louisiana coastal report blames sea level rise on, among other culprits, astrology.
- Andrew Cohen investigates the current state of wild horses and the policies surrounding their eventual slaughter.
- Dickens dealt with rock-star fame when he arrived in America in 1842.
- My relation to Dwight D. Eisenhower is remote compared with the immediate Eisenhower family.
- Jah Wobble and Keith Levene talk about how they made Metal Box.