March 14, 2014
By The Morning News
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- When asked what would happen on the eve of Russia's intervention in Ukraine, most international relations scholars got it wrong.
- If Russia annexed Crimea, Ukraine would be stronger and Russia would be poor.
- Novelist writing book set in Crimea looks on despairingly as current events spoil his plot.
- Knocking out just nine of the US's 55,000 electric-transmission substations could result in a nationwide blackout.
- Paris makes public transportation free for three days to fight severe pollution caused by warm weather.
- Pea-sized diamond found 400 miles under bedrock suggests large bodies of water under the Earth's surface.
- Rock chalk, tar heels, and boilermaking banana slugs—strange nicknames in college basketball.
- Excellent power rankings for March Madness: Why each team in the top 12 will win the national championship, and why each will fail in the first weekend.
- The international art and antique market grew 150 percent in the past decade thanks to higher priced works.
- In 2013, major Hollywood studios released 32% fewer films than they did in 2003, but spent 75% more per film.
- Retired police officer shoots another man for texting in a movie theater, 15 minutes after sending a text himself.
- Norwegian companies introduce “Knausgaard-free days” to keep people’s minds on work, not on a six-volume autobiography of a 45-year-old.
- Melancholy carries an elegance and sense of maturity that happiness lacks in its simple-minded prettiness.
- The fact is, white privilege is the invisible bossy bitch in the room.
- During the Civil War, African-American journalists led a vigorous debate over the war’s meaning for Black America.
- Mike Huckabee remembers the Civil War as the “War of Northern Aggression.”
- Frozen TV dinner sales in the US plummet after 60 years of meteoric success, a result of health consciousness and boredom.
- In South Korea, breakfast only implies the time of day; the same food can be eaten at lunch or dinner.
