January 26, 2015
- Far-left Syriza party wins election in Greece, signaling trouble for the country's international creditors.
- An attack by separatist militants leaves 80% of Pakistan without power.
- Same-sex marriage may be legal in socially conservative Oklahoma, but it's far from simple.
- Nuer refugees fled South Sudan, and converged on the best replacement they could find: Nebraska.
- If feminism is about social justice, reforming college rape reporting must be about due process as much as helping victims.
- Bloomberg editor requires staff to include quotes from women in stories.
- A brief history of the MTA and BART fare-dispensing kiosks, and how they could be improved.
- The case against the singularity: AI can create, but it can't tell if what it's made is any good.
- Few white-collar people understand the degree to which manual labor chews up workers' bodies.
- Genetically modified mosquitos could be released in the Florida Keys to attack dengue and chikungunya.
- A survey shows we prefer handwritten notes to social posts and love letters to sexts.
- See also: Giles Turnbull turns off Twitter for a month and tweets on postcards.
- A grandma finds her place on Tumblr.
- The spare and intimate Blood on the Tracks became a bootleg after Dylan's brother doubted its commercial appeal.
- LA Times anonymous food critic makes the case for losing the mask.
- Bizarre legal ruling in Germany spotlights global contention over whether men should sit or stand to pee.