February 20, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Before working at Gitmo, a Chicago detective may have tortured and wrongfully convicted people of color for years.
- Louisiana refuses to compensate Glenn Ford for the 30 years he spent on death row for a murder he didn't commit.
- NSA and GCHQ hacked one of the world's largest SIM card makers to spy without help from telecom companies.
- Elon Musk's biggest bet might not be supercars or hyperloops, but solar-charged batteries to power your home.
- New city government in Delhi plans to halt slum demolitions, provide free water, and halve electricity prices.
- Caracas mayor arrested for involvement in alleged US-backed coup.
- Due to shipping labor disputes, West Coast cities were left without key ingredients of Chinese New Year.
- California is in the midst of its warmest winter on record; for the first time, San Francisco had no rain in January.
- No matter how cold you are, these iceberg pictures are colder.
- America's cold snap, in epic pictures.
- On leaving Etsy.
- The benefits of waiting in line: culture cred, thrift, mindfulness.
- After Marilyn vos Savant solved a Monty Hall variation in 1990, she heard from 10,000 mansplaining academics.
- A new elementary school looks more like a tech company's office, complete with an open floor plan and tiny conference rooms.
- See also: KidZania is a revolutionary theme park that lets kids play at corporate-sponsored employment.
- Rooster fans: Here are your 2015 Tournament of Books brackets and schedule.
- Oliver Sacks reflects on being mortally ill.
