February 27, 2015
- German lawmakers expected to pass a four-month extension of Greece’s bailout plan.
- Ski resorts experiment with variable pricing, rewarding customers for committing early.
- Environment committee chairman and noted climate-change denier throws snowball on the Senate floor to make a point.
- "Rich white boy" New Orleans lawyer builds America's first slavery museum with his own cash.
- White men twice as likely as black men to be allowed to ride a bus without paying.
- English poet James Fenton visits Mexico.
- Mauritanian Guantanamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi's long road from al Qaeda fighter to New York Times bestselling author.
- Obama sends a thank-you note to Redditors for supporting net neutrality.
- See also: Leslie Harpold's classic in proper manners, "How to Write a Thank-You Note."
- Today at TMN: Your 2015 Tournament of Books T-shirts have arrived.
- Science behind the dress that blew up the internet yesterday.
- Thanks to an extra set of receptors, "tetrachromats" get a variegated view of life, far beyond the usual color palette.
- Artificially intelligent computer program masters video games without any human coaching.
- Ethics—not science—now may be what stands in the way of a human head transplant.
- Kim Gordon on the pain of playing Sonic Youth’s final concerts alongside her ex, Thurston Moore.
- Highlights from Haruki Murakami's advice column.