January 2, 2014
By The Morning News
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- In China, one in five children—about 61 million kids—live in rural villages without their parents.
- Wal-Mart China's latest scandal.
- Photos document the new identities of buildings that used to be Pizza Huts.
- Twenty years after the Zapatista rebellion, indigenous Mexican tribes still denied entry or service in posh restaurants and stores.
- Cord Jefferson's must-read round-up of America's year in racial amnesia.
- Writers, editors, and thinkers decide what were the most important events of 2013 and what were the most trivial.
- See also: TMN's editors choose their favorite stories of the year.
- Scientists share their favorite jokes.
- Facebook uses two pieces of data—hometown and current city—to track global migration patterns.
- Considering the enormous value of the information he has revealed, and the abuses he has exposed, Mr. Snowden deserves better than a life of permanent exile.
- Spike Jonze's Her predicts the future to be all about software, not hardware.
- Related: "I, Glasshole: My Year With Google Glass."
- Computer models suggest green corridors once crossed the Sahara, allowing mankind to do so, too, about 125,000 years ago.
- Speed metal's fastest drummers find themselves unable to keep up with the pace of electronic drum machines.
- Related: The lost art of the cutaway illustration.
- 2014's first Astronomy Photo of the Day: Venus in a crescent phase above Quebec City.
- Adam Gopnik assesses the last 100 years.
