March 12, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Feinstein accuses the CIA of illegal, unconstitutional actions: pillaging her committee's computers and intimidating staff.
- Dueling anticipates the senator's looming report, expected to torch the spies over torture methods.
- In case you missed it: Obama asks to see Zach Galifianakis's birth certificate.
- Three years later, more than half of residents near the Fukushima power plant suffer from PTSD.
- China won't touch Crimean independence for fear of Tibetan and Taiwanese independence.
- Musicians and artists flee San Francisco in droves, leaving the city creatively barren.
- Ten-year study of London’s bus stops produces photographs resembling Renaissance tableaus.
- Teens today are less drunk than previous generations, and now they view marijuana as less harmful than alcohol.
- Fatalities on airplanes declined over the past 40 years even as number of travelers increased nearly 10-fold.
- Percentage of speaking roles for women in film has barely increased since the 1940s.
- Female journalists, particularly in sports, deal with steady insults and harassment, never mind employers who hire models to fill their shoes.
- Vermont and Montana residents eat the most vegetables and exercise most frequently.
- Memoirs of a Brooklyn barista.
- Song lyrics show patterns of containing implicit hashtags, at least when they're diagrammed.
- Real hedge fund names: Waterfall Eden, Pirate Capital, Cubist Systematic Strategies.
- Harvard needs a Wikipedian-in-Residence, and candidates "must be a registered Wikipedian in good standing;" pay is $16/hour.
- Rio de Janeiro's “Christ the Redeemer” statue hit by lightning approximately two to four times a year.
