February 17, 2016
By The Morning News
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- GOP race may come down to that “white whale of politics,” a contested national party convention.
- See also: Animated war gifs by the great Christoph Niemann.
- Twitter users respond to Jeb's photo of his gun with pictures of tea cups, light sabers, bigger guns.
- Somehow, a boiling river in Peru escaped scientific notice for the last 75 years.
- Republican Fed banker who helped Bush structure bailouts says banks are still too big to fail.
- How to survive falling through the ice.
- Outdoor brands widely rely on carcinogenic chemicals to waterproof clothing.
- Some cheese brands that promise 100% purity contain wood pulp instead of Parmesan.
- Sexual abuse goes unspoken in black communities, unnoticed amidst a national culture that's “clinging to an innocence that never existed.”
- Selma: a symbol of past civil rights victories, a symbol of current civil rights failures.
- Remembering Jordan Davis, the black teen murdered in South Carolina for playing his music too loudly.
- British colonialists pursued wrong-headed psychology experiments, but at least they helped prove that, in the end, we’re all the same.
- Animals prove capable of consistently detecting cancer and landmines through smell.
- Former champion unceremoniously tossed from Westminster Kennel Club for barking.
- Argentine soccer referee murdered by sent-off player during amateur match.
- Inside TMZ and its network of sources, from airline employees to valets and shopkeepers.
- If TMZ sold corn instead of banner advertising, it would yield 13,000 metric tons a year.
- If China's new debt in January were a country, it would be the world's 27th-biggest economy.
- Shyp brings on-demand service to logistics, but its biggest innovation is old school: they rely on employees, not contractors.
- Guidelines from 1928 on how to give good telegram.
- Leslie Harpold's eternal advice on how to write an effective, charming thank-you note.
