January 24, 2014
- FBI arrests revenge-porn site operator for paying a hacker to steal hundreds of nude photos from people's email accounts.
- Morocco repeals law that exonerates rapist if they marry their victims, but marital rape is still legal.
- Series of storms in the Atlantic tosses abandoned cruise ship of cannibal rats toward Britain.
- Scientists in Brazil discover new species of river dolphin—the first to be discovered in a near-century.
- Cryptozoologists search for cryptids, animals heretofore considered mythical or extinct, the stuff of legend.
- Dutch researchers claim central heating causes weight gain, as it replaces the body's role in burning calories to stay warm.
- Demographically speaking, Justin Bieber should be street racing.
- Fish oil supplements, which generated $1.2 billion in sales last year, contain 14-30% less Omega-3 than advertised.
- The idea we should lead happy, balanced lives borders on dogma—perhaps we should embrace anxiety.
- Military officials in 1960 could detonate nuclear bombs without consulting the president—Dr. Strangelove is real.
- See also: Side-by-side recreations of Dr. Strangelove using household items.
- Constructivist Russian propaganda from the early 20th century both borrows and satirizes fin de siècle European art.
- A century before drones captured aerial photos, George R. Lawrence strapped cameras to balloons and kites.
- Chinese sentences that are divergent in meaning but identical in design.
- Buddhist synopses of the classics.
- Rare television interview with ToB author nominee Donna Tartt.
- Scrollable lunar eclipse.