February 14, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Right now Florida is the only state in the U.S. completely free of snow.
- Indonesian volcano erupts; 200,000 evacuated while airports as far as Australia cancel flights due to ash.
- Hungary strengthens ties with Russia.
- In the U.S., 40% of children are born to single mothers—indirectly related to the 40% of women married to men without college degrees.
- The world's largest solar plant has 300,000 computer-controlled mirrors that redirect the sun's light to turbine-generating towers.
- Using calculations and historical research, mathematicians conclude there are 177,147 ways to tie a tie.
- Seagulls in the Netherlands abandon their usual diet of small fish for landfill food.
- Entomologist finds unnoticed beetle discovered by Darwin himself; names beetle after Darwin and Sedaris.
- Facebook says Colorado Springs and El Paso are the easiest places to find relationships; San Francisco, New York the worst.
- See also: Facebook adds 50 different gender options to profiles, as well as "he," "her," and "their" as pronoun options.
- "To Get to Zen" by Brett Elizabeth Jenkins.
- New etiquette challenges may make the MTA's Wi-Fi and cell service underground expansion more trouble than it's worth.
- Love's do's and don'ts, according to medieval manuscripts.
- See also: He-gassen, a circa 1850 Japanese scroll, depicts an anti-colonialist battle of farts—perhaps NSFW.
- Innovative candle comes in a wax-catching holder that creates a new candle from itself.
- We're off on Monday for President's Day, and here's the truth behind why that day exists.
