January 7, 2014
- [Snowden] went too far to be considered just a whistleblower.
- The coldest temperature recorded in the Midwest on Monday was -36°—enough for antifreeze to freeze.
- More than 22 million tons of salt are scattered on U.S. roads annually—about 137 pounds of salt for every American.
- Why women aren't welcome on the internet.
- Assam plans to change its time zone an hour ahead of the rest of India—a decision based on geography, not politics.
- Brazil employs catamarans to clean up the vast amounts of floating trash in Rio De Janiero's waters before 2016 Olympics.
- Physicians should never look online for information about their patients, though...the practice will become only more common.
- Aerospace academics believe a band of dark matter surrounding Earth is adding mass to our gravitational pull.
- Cubes the size of coffee mugs are orbiting Earth to monitor magnetic fields, capture wide-angle imagery, more.
- See also: Sound clips of seismic activity under an eight-mile-deep hole, a California home, and the Twin Towers during 9/11.
- What could be the world's most terrifying path leads to a Taoist tea house at an altitude of 7,087 feet.
- Against author interviews.
- French company specializes in glossy, steel gravestones with Photoshopped graphics.
- In conversation with a woman who hunts for gravestones with epitaphs describing death by lightning strike.
- Microscopically detailed photos of spiders and insects eating each other.
- Japan's Mountain Dew-flavored corn chips taste—and fizz—like Mountain Dew.
- Any of you cocksuckers feel like a new fucking Neil Simon play?
- See also: "You should have seen me when I was writing Death of a Salesman. I had pecs the size of Iroquois saddlebags."