January 13, 2014
- China's steel manufacturing industry produces roughly a quarter of the world's steel—and is on the verge of collapse.
- Researchers find MTV's 16 and Pregnant has led to a drastic decrease in teen pregnancy rate.
- Ink-jet technology that prints retinal cells could help treat or cure common forms of blindness.
- The taste of beer alone, not just alcohol content, triggers dopamine release in the brain.
- Use of plural and proper nouns, possessive pronouns, and verbs—unless they're past participle—makes a bestselling book.
- Chris Christie's apology and other political speeches analyzed for first-person singular pronouns.
- When you live with shelling all the time, you just let everything go. You have to laugh.
- Sloane Crosley sits shiva for her neighbor only to realize her neighbor isn't dead.
- Death creeps closer every year for humans, but it creeps closer in orderly steps—about every eight years.
- With the rise of abstraction and the advancement of technology, anyone really can make high-end art.
- Color-coded map shows which countries are taken to be the most emotional.
- See also: Top movie sets for each American state.
- Best food books of the past year found to "sit firmly within the growing genre of writing about food as a way of writing about ideas."
- Analysis of examples to show why football players are among the smartest of athletes.
- The funniest part of Robert Gates's new memoir.
- Maybe today we are being farmed by the new system of power... we need a new journalism to explain what is really going on.
