February 27, 2014
By The Morning News
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- January storms leave 21,341 sea birds dead off the coast of France, the country's worst bird "slaughter" since 1900.
- Surge in U.S. teenagers with head lice blamed on group selfies.
- Selfies from five cities compared for regional differences—gender, expressions, ages, even head tilt.
- Photographer lets girls choose their own poses, under two conditions: no smiling and no selfie-inspired mouth expressions.
- See also: Touching portraits of a boy who was born without eyes.
- Downfall of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department—scandal, brutality, and manhandling the Austrian consul general.
- Interactive guide to America’s housing market, which is looking "frothy" again.
- Giddy revolutions in Venezuela and Ukraine lead to disappoint and disillusionment—which must stop or lead to ruin.
- NASA announces 719 new planets "validated" by the Kepler Telescope team.
- FDA organizes panel to discuss the ethics of "designer babies"—babies from multiple parents, with traits scientists can engineer in vitro.
- New fashion trend "normcore" requires rumpled fleece, khakis, and New Balance sneakers.
- Not unlike Creationism, Whole Foods operates on its own level of zealous pseudoscience.
- Countries' social inequality viewed through winners of soccer championships.
- Job candidates in their 40s and 50s find employers still requesting their SAT scores.
- From the archives: Cameron Crowe's account of riding with the Allman Brothers at 16, later to inspire Almost Famous.
- Complete oral history of Ghostbusters, initially conceived by Aykroyd as intergalactic noir.
- Artist builds mock metropolis from 500,000 sugar cubes—equivalent in weight to 1,148 swords, 68 suits of plate armor, and all of Henry VIII’s wives combined.
