February 29, 2016
- Yesterday's Islamic State suicide bombings kill 70 in Baghdad's deadliest attack this year.
- Former governor of the Bank of England says the Eurozone is doomed.
- Cases for and against the $100 bill.
- Rock, probably as well as anyone could, held the industry to account on its biggest night.
- Chris Rock's joke about Asians being good at math was tone-deaf, or "so pathetically white."
- See also: Honey badgers are magical escape artists.
- How to be the top-rated television-viewing family in America.
- The RNC’s problem isn’t Trump, it’s Republican voters and the lies they’ve been told for years.
- MIT Media Lab uses journalism and Twitter firehose to identify 150 people influencing the 2016 election.
- Voters associate Sanders and Trump accents with "New York authenticity."
- People who oppose same-sex marriage often believe gay people are more promiscuous than heterosexuals.
- Map of the Bay Area according to Urban Dictionary entries about San Francisco.
- Ethnography sheds light on exploitative rent hotels in San Francisco’s Mission district.
- When the Uber model is applied to tutoring, cheating on homework becomes that much easier.
- Starbucks to open its first store in Italy.
- Tech companies' obligations to shareholders compel them to value growth above all else—and become monopolies.
- Wal-Mart as Democrats' fulcrum: Sanders harangues it for inequality; Clinton once sat on the board.
- Obama’s nominee to head the Library of Congress is an African-American career librarian who's against the Patriot Act.
- See also: Nominees for "Oddest Book Title of the Year."
- The woman who invented bras sold the design for a pittance, bought a dog named Clytoris, and went on to run a famed avant-garde press.
- Living without a fixed address is both carefree and miserable—the same as being single.
- Related: Girl meets boy; girl and boy meet Sprinter van.