February 18, 2016
By The Morning News
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- Supreme court justices are passionate politicians, not oracles on a Jedi Council.
- To deny Obama a third Supreme Court, Republicans invoke Chuck Schumer.
- Money hasn’t won votes so far this primary season.
- New website sells fancy hotel rooms by the hour, pleasing lovers as well as hotels trying to combat Airbnb.
- Fewer email users, fewer searches, fewer homepage visits: Yahoo's death spiral continues.
- Women code better, according to anonymized results on open-source projects.
- Big claims about quantum computing prove warranted, though new engineering will be necessary to scale.
- Hollywood hospital officials pay 40 bitcoin ransom—$17,000—to settle with hackers who took their system hostage.
- Slightly related: Roger Ebert's "How to Read a Movie" from 2008.
- Making the claim for Jaws not only as great American art, but a lifesaver.
- Vietnamese prisoner inseminates herself with sperm from another inmate, apparently to escape the death penalty.
- US oilfield company operating in Iraq says radioactive material was stolen from its premises, raising fears of ISIS.
- Fans of Tom Brady express anguish to see him downhill skiing.
- Whites who live in Southern counties that had high shares of slaves in 1860 are more likely to identify as Republican.
- Writer who considers himself kindred spirit with Oregon occupiers mainly finds despair in the standoff.
- Militant ranchers shit on Native American burial grounds, literally.
- America's fracking boom is causing a global spike in methane emissions—many times more potent than carbon.
- Viruses don’t normally affect coral reefs, but environmental stress is causing infections to spike.
- Chef Heston Blumenthal on "neurogastronomy"—changing the way customers' tastes are interpreted by their brains.
- "Philematology" is the science of kissing, and still mostly a mystery.
- Profile of Michael A. Orthofer, the lawyer attempting to read everything.
