January 5, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Global intersections of language and information reveal the elite's continuing reliance on European languages.
- For second funeral in a row, hundreds of NYPD officers turn their back on DeBlasio.
- See also: Backwards-facing seats on airplanes are 10 times safer, but riders don't want them.
- Twenty-four of 25 black members of NYPD say they are racially profiled when off-duty.
- Vietnam vet becomes first recipient of Medicare-covered sex reassignment surgery.
- ESPN's Stuart Scott dies from cancer at 49.
- In his "newest and best book," surgeon Atul Gawande gives a moving look at aging and death, but doesn't go far enough on euthanasia.
- Dallas restaurants revolt against newspaper critic, refusing to charge her for food so she can't review them.
- Not all calories are created equal: power of the sugar lobby keeps daily-sugar percentages from appearing on nutrition labels.
- Related: What 2,000 calories really looks like.
- Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson currently attempting history's hardest rock climb, "free climbing" a relentlessly smooth face of Yosemite's El Capitan.
- Following the centennial of the Panama Canal, Nicaragua begins work on a canal of its own.
- Thanks to Thomas Piketty's work, economists in 2015 are thinking about all wealth, and not just income.
- What was once limited to a handful of tech-savvy obsessives is now the provenance of middle-class, middle-America moms.
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal resolution for 2015: to finish a new book every two weeks.
- To comply with the EU's Court of Justice over the European “right to be forgotten,” Google seeks out a philosopher.
- Experts at the National Gallery of Ireland show how to repair a Monet after someone punches it.
- Long-lost synthesizer music for surgeons surfaces in a small Athens bookshop.
- Nearly all of Whittier, Alaska's, 200 residents live in a single 14-story building complete with a police department, health clinic, and playground.
