January 14, 2014
- NBC defends how it plans to broadcast the Olympics alongside Russia's "anti-gay propaganda" law.
- Terrorism case analysis finds NSA's phone record collection “has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism.”
- Mexico to deploy federal forces in western state where narcos and vigilantes are fighting.
- In 2012, valley fever was the second-most-reported disease in Arizona—there's no cure for the most severe cases and no vaccine.
- America’s share of global spending on biomedical research shrank from 51% in 2007 to 45% in 2012.
- Nearly every expensive lab test I’ve gotten over the past year is coming to the delightful convenience of my smartphone.
- Christoph Niemann offers a graphic tribute to the Etch A Sketch inventor André Cassagnes.
- Source code from TV and films deciphered.
- See also: Heat map of the world's most photographed places.
- Experts argue the hormonal changes of puberty have only a modest direct effect on adolescents; it's the parents who are damaged.
- "On Being Ugly: An Argument for the Total Irrelevance of Beauty."
- Supported by technological advances and longer lives, pets now undergo the same complicated surgeries as humans.
- Related: Photographs of animals living in a world where humans are extinct.
- In case you haven't seen it: "10 Stories That Prove Bill Murray Really Is the Most Interesting Man in the World."
- Tribute to sailing around Maine.