March 13, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Pentagon spent around $300,000 to study Putin's body movements for clues to his intentions.
- The Kremlin has proved that it has the means, and the media, to gin up support for Putin’s folly—but that won’t last indefinitely.
- Richard Branson is the mirror image of a Russian oligarch.
- Side effects of sword-swallowing include “sword throats,” perforation of the pharynx, and occasional chest pains.
- Photographs of yesterday's deadly gas explosion in Harlem.
- Related: Pictures of elaborately fabricated dystopian dioramas.
- Ninety-eight percent of a model city in Inner Mongolia remains uninhabited; prostitutes outnumber pedestrians.
- Fascinating report on the sex trade finds prostitution decreasing on the street, thriving online, and child pornography escalating.
- Fashion company only uses Ph.Ds and doctoral candidates to model its spring collection.
- Former White House correspondent relates life from the retail trenches.
- Supercut of moments from Seinfeld when literally nothing happens.
- Brief history of Marvel Music—"when comics and pop music finally attempted to merge on a massive, mainstream scale," and failed.
- Slightly related: Violent elephant crashes into a house in Benghal, then saves a trapped 10-month-old baby.
- Hottest typefaces of 2013 represent a "new phase of globalization and democratization of the font market."
- Study finds people often prefer a beloved object or brand to their partner or child, assuming a story's involved.
- High demand exists for innovation in wheelchair design, but the system is rigged for affordability.
- Students develop sustainable mobile home that costs less than a new car.
