January 10, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Rachel Maddow speculates: Christie wasn't targeting Fort Lee mayor with bridge closures, but NJ Senator Loretta Weinberg.
- India firearms company launches exclusive revolver for women.
- Until 1912, visitors to Niagara Falls could walk on the ice bridge—it's refrozen, but not to that point yet.
- See also: Lake Michigan's surface covered in rolling spheres of ice.
- [Philip] Roth, the rebellious son, the fleshliest of writers, is turning into a monument before our eyes.
- Compared to the haiku and limerick, the listicle form is gloriously underspecified.
- A fascinating—and complete—etymological guide to European Jewish last names.
- Between 2000 and 2012, newspaper ad revenue dropped by around the same amount Google's ad revenue soared.
- Chlamydia is the most prolific CDC disease on record—more worrisome is gonorrhea, now antibiotic-resistant.
- To survive, dating websites need to keep people single as much as they need to generate matches.
- Would the real Joseph Gordon-Levitt use the profile name “TheRealJosephGordonLevitt” on OkCupid?
- Mein Kampf e-book sales surge.
- New research shows that people subconsciously implement a one-in, one-out policy when making new friends.
- Population-wise, the United States could hold 10 Canadas.
- Iceland brewery to offer beer with the ground up bones of fin whales.
- Bashford Dean, eccentric founder of the Met's armory department, was also passionate about fish.
- Hollywood wouldn't green-light Rain Man today.
- Watch Last Call, a documentary about New York City in the '90s.
