February 24, 2015
- Obama to veto legislation today, without "a lot of drama or fanfare," that would approve the Keystone XL pipeline.
- Fifteen former students of for-profit Corinthian Colleges go on debt strike.
- No end in sight for Venezuela's condom shortage.
- Two-day uprising at Texas immigrant detention center only the latest in a series of protests over poor living conditions.
- Getting to the airport by helicopter now available as a ride-sharing service in New York City.
- Real-world development indicators.
- China’s least happy citizens are educated single males from Guizhou, thanks to pressures involving housing.
- Mississippi courts experiment with new forms of bail, where small fines applied to poor defendants snowball into big profits.
- See also: How to fix a professional tennis match.
- British synesthete prefers listening to Americans, whose poor elocution keeps him from tasting words.
- Millennials "strongly prefer" print for pleasure and learning, turned off by the distractions of online reading.
- Ian McEwan tried to write The Imitation Game 40 years ago and failed.
- Nearly every of piece of ephemera shown on camera during The Grand Budapest Hotel was made by hand.
- In case you were wondering: Jeb Bush's wedding photographs were accidentally photobombed by Frank Zappa.
- NSA's Equation Group deemed the world's most sophisticated computer attack team.
- Edward Snowden joined a Reddit AMA yesterday.
- When you Google your medical symptoms, that information is up for grabs.
- If you are viewing porn online in 2015, even in Incognito mode, you should expect that your porn viewing history will be released and attached to your name.