February 21, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leaders sign a deal.
- Wrenching photographs of the protests in Kiev from the last 24 hours.
- New Jersey has run out of road salt, and a 90-year-old maritime law prevents it from acquiring more.
- Fukushima plant stores runoff in tanks to prevent spillage—340,000 tons of radioactive water, enough to fill 135 Olympic swimming pools.
- House of Cards watched avidly in China, especially by Communist Party leaders.
- Stalin's camouflaged summer villa in Sochi.
- Report on this year's "Last Man," in which participants try to be the last person to learn who won the Super Bowl.
- P&G set to launch a "smart toothbrush" that tells you in real-time when you're brushing too little.
- In the internet of actual things, toe nail clippers, kitchen knives, and chairs will tell you what you're doing wrong.
- Now's the time to get your 2014 Tournament of Books brackets and T-shirts.
- Roger Ebert was a great film critic; analyzing his entire body of work, he was an even better writer on addiction.
- People who remember their dreams often are more attuned to external stimuli, causing them to wake up intermittently without fully realizing it.
- List of 56 custom options used by people on Facebook to identify their genders.
- Startling round-up on Reddit of historical events that occurred at the same time.
- In 1894, a round-trip passage across the Atlantic cost $19 and was considered a good deal.
- Japanese guide book's tips for traveling to America.
- Wonderful, secret vocabulary of New York bartenders includes "the boomerang," a drink dispatched between bars, carried by trusted handlers.
