February 26, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Obesity rates in children two to five years old dropped 43% in the past decade.
- Ukrainian journalists launch YanukovychLeaks from documents found at the Mezhyhirya compound.
- Study of cursing on Twitter finds that Friday, Saturday, Sunday are consistently the least sweary days of the week.
- Bitcoin investors greatly disappointed by grand theft of virtual currency.
- The 10th Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes, starts on Monday—so order your T-shirt now!
- New research claims playing Tetris can help temper cravings for high-fat foods, cigarettes, and sex.
- Bottomless brunch is, and has always been, against New York state law.
- Potholes re-imagined as champagne coolers, rabbit holes, and large spaghetti plates.
- Related: Hyper-realistic close-up paintings of Axe body wash and other beauty products.
- Interview with Roger Federer super-fan about the very human satisfaction of watching beauty in motion, and what David Foster Wallace got wrong.
- In case you missed it, the lovely argument—with mucho evidence—from John Jeremiah Sullivan that ska began in Tennessee.
- See also: Modern medicine is miraculous until it consumes you.
- Veterans of Twin Peaks demonstrate that David Lynch is the father of the excellence in today's TV dramas.
- Emily Nussbaum convincingly shreds True Detective as cliché macho nonsense, all style, little substance.
- House of Cards gets a lot wrong about money in politics—notably that our system is worse than depicted.
- Unrelated: Life-size canvas timeline of all the lint collected from a single clothes dryer during the past year.
