March 17, 2014
- Identical studies of the "five-second rule" reach opposite conclusions—both agree moist foods are more bacteria-prone.
- Skin-tight astronaut suits mimic the effect of gravity and could prevent the brutal spinal damage caused by weightlessness.
- More than 80 large passenger aircrafts have disappeared since 1948.
- New study suggests ADHD medication could disrupt children's appetite and calorie-burning processes, causing future obesity.
- New theory on Hamlet: he is not indecisive, but wise enough to know that everything would fall apart anyway.
- Fascinating Rolling Stone interview with Bill Gates.
- Sam Adams and Heineken withdraw support of St. Patrick's Day parades in New York, Boston in solidarity with LGBT community.
- Men time vasectomies to coincide with March Madness.
- 63 percent of Americans say that closing their local library would have a "major impact" on their community.
- Inside a Chinese broadcast station.
- Menus at chain restaurants are sales documents, navigational guides, and explainers.
- Developers [acknowledge] the oldest malls, the kind that you associate with defunct chains like Waldenbooks, may be left to die.
- Ghostly pictures of shopping malls left to die.
- The United States needs 15 percent more doctors; to fix the deficit, we need to shorten medical training.
- Study finds online reviews of physicians reliable, at least for cardiac surgeons.
- Contemporary choral music connects with audiences because it makes atonality accessible.
- Understanding the "mor" in "Voldemort": The evil of literature's most villainous syllable traced to its phonestheme.