February 28, 2014
By The Morning News
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- UN reports 300,000 Nigerians uprooted and displaced as a result of Boko Harem violence.
- Unlike Standard Oil and Carnegie Steel, Facebook and Google are everywhere and nowhere, making today's image of "the worker" similarly invisible.
- President Abe reconsiders Japan's official apology to "comfort women," aka, military sex slaves.
- Related: The past week's world news explained, from Yanukovych's flight to Erdogan's scandal, in time for your weekend dinner dates.
- Stunning pictures of the Northern Lights currently trickling into the United Kingdom.
- RyanAir plans to launch $17 flights from Europe to the U.S., with seats not much smaller than major carriers'.
- Kickstarter campaign for a reinvented wheel.
- Writer experiences week in the life of an Uber cab driver.
- Archaeologists discover world's oldest cheese on the chest of a Chinese mummy dating back to 1615 BC.
- Nearly 141 trillion calories of food—1,249 calories per capita per day—go to waste every year in the U.S.
- FDA proposes design changes to nutrition labels, with bigger emphasis on total calories, added sugars, and certain nutrients.
- Varying prices of pizza in the neighborhoods of Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.
- See also: Response to Spike Lee's gentrification rant.
- Online exam will test your eyes and write you a prescription, all for 75% less than an in-person test.
- Evidence suggests John Steinbeck spied for the CIA, using his fame as access to various parts of Europe.
- Arriving Monday: TMN's 2014 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes; grab your brackets and T-shirt today.
- TV can never do what the novel does, much as the novel can never do the same as sex.
