March 25, 2014
- Ukrainian women launch campaign to withhold sex from Russian men.
- Federal employees forbidden from smoking marijuana even in states where it’s legal.
- Girl scout breaks national record, selling 18,107 boxes of cookies on Sunday night.
- Quote about New Orleans lacking kale causes much consternation and many op-eds.
- One-third of all web traffic is considered fake, the product of computers hijacked by viruses and programmed to visit sites.
- The rise and fall of professional bowling.
- Researchers find only a small percentage of people are "supertaskers," capable of doing several things at once.
- When loved ones go missing, humans experience "ambiguous loss," a kind of suffering that freezes their grief.
- Computer program is 35% more accurate than people at recognizing pained facial expressions.
- Analysis of the Kim-Kanye cover.
- Middle-school girls fight for the right to wear leggings after teachers claim they are "too distracting for boys."
- New dads need longer paternity leave to learn how to parent.
- What women want on the dance floor, according to science: hips that work, and arms doing nothing.
- Amateur farmer's meditation on burying chickens.
- Photographs from artists who became long-haul truckers.