January 22, 2014
- Interesting account of actor Jeffrey Wright's attempts to develop a gold mine in Sierra Leone.
- Times of India's disturbing front-page headline.
- Photos of Bombay's slum-surrounded residential skyscrapers titled after their ad slogans.
- See also: Sketches of architecture and street life in Paris from the late 1800s.
- Mayor de Blasio's crusade to stop New Yorkers from jaywalking borders on hysteria.
- How to walk and jaywalk in New York.
- 2013's most common passwords.
- Twitter feed collects amusing German words like quasselstrippe (someone who doesn't stop talking).
- Researchers find that cognitive ability does not decrease with old age—it slows down as a result of storing too much information.
- The paradox of female-empowering ads.
- Great white sharks can live for up to 73 years, significantly longer than the 23-year-old previously registered as the oldest.
- Antarctic falcon snatches video camera disguised as an egg, captures stunning aerial footage of penguins.
- North Carolina law requiring abortion doctors to show patients ultrasounds deemed unconstitutional.
- The scandal roiling Chapel Hill "is a story about the moral foundation of a multibillion-dollar business: Division 1 of the NCAA."
- Super Bowl games are mostly quiet affairs, with many of the tickets sold and bartered through corporate sponsors.
- Pick a zombie for The Morning News Tournament of Books X, presented by Field Notes.
- Related: All Tournament books 30% off at Powells, the ToB's book sponsor.