February 7, 2014
- Journalists' gleeful schadenfreude about personal inconveniences in Sochi is the hallmark of entitlement.
- Post Cold War America and Russia have switched places—America was conservative and nationalistic while Russia was revolutionary.
- Chanel No. 5 changed the perfume industry by incorporating musk; after WWII, animal secretions were de rigueur.
- Alaska experiences a heat wave during which temperatures are 60 degrees above average.
- Penguins in UK sanctuary given antidepressants after weeks of rainfall ruined their emotional stability.
- Obamacare thrives in San Francisco Chinatown's hospitals—where patients once were banned from other hospitals.
- Growing up Chinese in America.
- The view of Earth from Mars is but a speck.
- Long-exposure portraits of Earth's 43 brightest cities as shown by NASA's map of the planet at night.
- Researchers in Chile studying dinosaur locomotion raise chickens with prosthetic dinosaur tails from birth.
- To keep the film franchise close to its roots, Jurassic World will be shot using analog film.
- February has been a consistently terrible month for movies for the past 13 years.
- Northern California private girls' school serves fried chicken and watermelon for lunch to commemorate Black History Month.
- Love as the loss of control—whether it brings ecstasy or devastation, within or without marriage—is a French ideal.
- Chlamydia remains in a person's gastrointestinal track, ready to return, even after the infection has cleared from their genitals.
- Consider yourself warned: a kiss filmed from the inside of someone's mouth.
- The Morning News is seeking an intern—application deadline is midnight tonight.