January 6, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Most areas of the U.S. are the coldest in nearly 20 years—some cities are 30 to 50 degrees below average.
- Not that you'll need it today, but: A guide to where you should put your sunglasses when you head inside.
- Mountains in areas without glaciers get their shape from strikes of lightning.
- Around the world, MDMA, LSD, and marijuana were the most popular Silk Road purchases—after that, tastes vary by region.
- I was driving rather aggressively. Then all of a sudden had the realization that we were all flowing in the the same stream.
- How the alcoholism storyline in Iron Man saved my life.
- When DragonBall Z characters go supersaiyen, skin become pale, brown eyes become blue...That hierarchy made sense.
- Research shows the more one deviates from clothing norms, the more superiority is afforded (doesn't apply to researchers).
- Bluefin tuna, which sold for almost $2 million at a 2013 fish auction, was ground up for cat food in the 1960s.
- TED talk about the ineffectiveness of TED talks.
- Drug that facilitates the absorption of new information being studied to develop a pill for perfect pitch.
- Why we should end "cancer" diagnoses: The label becomes a target for unscrupulous entrepreneurs.
- Of more than 200,000 who applied for a one-way trip to Mars in 2025, 1,058 have made it to round two.
- Supercut of 2013 best local news bloopers.
- The year we broke the internet.
