March 6, 2014

• Statistics show the ACT is gaining popularity among high school students; the SAT is remodeling itself to imitate it.
• College women more likely to adopt eating disorders, dislike their bodies after using Facebook.
• Graphic designer crowd-sources funding to produce an "average Barbie."
• Sex after rape: Survivors of sexual violence speak about their experiences.
• San Francisco street kids attempt "street justice" against aggressive panhandler and perceived pedophile Dan Sandler, aka “Evil Elmo.”
• In patients suffering a life-threatening illness, LSD reduces anxiety for over a year.
• Half of all homes in Japan are demolished within 38 years, as compared to 100 years in the US.
• Opening round of The Morning News Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes, begins today.
• Related: Three days left to pick up your official Rooster T-shirt.
• Lovely story on legendary basketball coach Dean Smith's memory, now wrecked by dementia.
• America's repossession industry operates a vast surveillance network, using license-scanning technology.
• Trash-obsessed boy buys garbage truck on eBay with his mother's credit card.
• DC restaurants keep tabs on critics with secret document stuffed with their preferences and dislikes.
• For anyone older than 65, meat and cheese are as lethal and cancer-causing as cigarettes.
• Update: Maybe not.
• Company that planned to use tissue samples from celebrities like Kanye and Jennifer Lawrence to make artisanal salami discovered to be a hoax.
• Cronut inventor's latest hybrid includes shots of milk ensconced in cylindrical chocolate chip cookies.
• WHO halves its recommendation for ideal sugar intake to 5% per day—practically impossible, considering the added sugars in most packaged food.
• World's first ice-cream cleanse.