January 22, 2016
- More than 500 flights cancelled ahead of the East Coast's dreaded weekend storm.
- Washington Post shuts down its column on "what was fake on the internet this week."
- Haiti's opposition presidential candidate calls the planned run-off a farce with only one candidate.
- Probably no surprise that of all the candidates, Trump's Wikipedia page is the most edited.
- Google has paid Apple at least $1 billion to be the iPhone’s search bar.
- Predictions about driverless cars.
- South Africa lifts ban on trading rhino horns, gives rhinos their death sentence.
- Humans have kept elephants for thousands of years, longer than we’ve domesticated chickens.
- After seizing a child porn website last year, the FBI continued to run it for two weeks.
- Report of a literal highway theft in Russia.
- Palestinians pissed that Airbnb is listing settlement properties, failing to mention a property is on occupied land.
- How to grasp the cost of falling oil prices in Canada: The 8-Dollar Cauliflower.
- An interview with the "Best Finance Minister in the World."
- Surowiecki: So-called 'taking back the land' would be a financial disaster for ranchers and for the region.
- Stories of some of the 750 Syrian civilians killed by Russian forces since bombs started falling in October.
- Saudi Arabia says chess is forbidden in Islam; Iran disagrees.
- City Council in Denmark requires school lunch menus to include pork in defiance of Muslim refugees.
- Professional skiiers produce highlight reels by planning all their travel at the last minute.
- New Field Notes notebook celebrates Chicago pride.
- Bummer, but: You’ll likely spend 3.5 days of your life untangling headphones.
- R. Kelly pretended that he doesn't know who Dave Chappelle is in a GQ interview.
- What happens when pickup artists are rejected by a society of hippies.