February 6, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Rebels, Ukrainian authorities agree to allow civilian evacuation from the current fighting in eastern Ukraine.
- The first pope to address Congress, Francis will wield authority over the core of modern American political debate.
- MLK's mother was also assassinated—like other black women leaders she's left out of black history narratives.
- The fact that so much of the internet's security software is underfunded is becoming increasingly problematic.
- America's latest health obsession is a "pathological" fixation on the quality and nutrition of food.
- Ursula LeGuin's manifesto for an ecological society.
- Researchers sample DNA from New York subway stations, find genetic material from 15,152 different species.
- "You'd probably be fine" if you licked the pole on a New York subway.
- Women feel the psychological stress of commuting four times worse than men, ultimately limiting job diversity.
- When the Washington Post interviewed Taft's cow.
- Inside the Brazilian town settled by Confederate soldiers, and where slavery still exists.
- How to gesture when reenacting Satan's speech to his legions from Paradise Lost.
- Ben Shattuck's paintings of endangered prairie flowers opens at the Harrison Gallery in Williamstown, Mass.
- Hershey has blocked Cadbury bar imports, prompting a run on existing stock of the UK-made candy.
- In the imperialism of languages, English conquered everything, including science.
- The single-serving show might coax us into being better viewers.
- See also: David Foster Wallace predicted the outcome of our current era of TV binge-watching.
