March 11, 2014
By The Morning News
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- New Pew survey shows millennials to be the most racially diverse, areligious generation in American history.
- Pictures from Sochi's Winter Paralympics.
- Africa doesn't need your wifi.
- From online dating to online making-up: Couples use therapy apps to figure out why they're fighting.
- Anti-Semitic comic tests France's already limited protections of free speech; lawyers complain about pre-emptive bans.
- News commentary should be put on a 24-hour delay.
- The London Review of Books is possibly the world's best magazine, thanks to wealth, strong opinions, and Mary-Kay Wilmers.
- Etymology of “goodbye” finds "a blessing in disguise, a contraction of God be with you."
- "Fit to Print" tumblr tracks instances when the New York Times avoids saying "fuck" and the like.
- From 1961 to 1997, it was illegal to tattoo someone in New York City—a law designed "to hound an unpopular activity out of existence."
- Haunting portraits of ancient forests in California and the people who live next door to them.
- Man gives his personal 3-D printer everything he's got, and ends up with plastic blobs.
- Elephants can distinguish the ethnicity, age, and sex of a person from voice recordings.
- People from around the world pose with everything they eat in a single day.
- New generations of Chinese students find solace in the once-subversive act of reading modern American fiction.
- In case you're missing out, the 2014 Tournament of Books is halfway through its opening round.
- Remembering Eudora Welty.
