GREENLAND BERETS
Meet The Spec Ops Dog Sledders Who Patrol Greenland's National Parks
They're like Navy SEALs, only their auditions are harder.
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'THE GUY IS HITLER'
Louis C.K. Penned An Email To His Fans Begging Them Not To Vote For Trump
Every Saturday since the end of January, comedian Louis C.K. has emailed his fans to announce each subsequent episode of his new show ‘‘Horace and Pete.’’ This week’s came with a lengthy post-script plea.
NATURAL BORN CRIMINALS
Is Crime Genetic? Scientists Don’t Know Because They’re Afraid To Ask
The country has made unprecedented strides in the fight against crime. Both violent and non-violent crime are way down. But what if much of what we know about the causes of crime is either deeply flawed or flat out wrong?
UBER BUT FOR GERMY KIDS
Disney Unveils Surge Pricing Plans For Parks
For the first time, tickets to Walt Disney World in Florida and Disneyland in California will cost more during holidays and some weekends — up to 20 percent more — than during slower periods, as the bursting-at-the-seams parks seek to spread out demand.
ONE HORN TO RULE THEM ALL
The Linguistic Sex Appeal Of The Unicorn
The lexical unicorn zoo just keeps on adding exhibits. Unicorns are startups. They're dream jobs. They're 7'3" Latvian future basketball superstars. But what is it about that word that makes it so attractive to use?
INSERT HAIR OF THE DOG JOKE HERE
Pigs Who Drink And Other Besotted Animals
Birds can and do get drunk from eating fermenting fruit. Last year, the problem was so severe among Bohemian waxwings feasting on rotting Mountain Ash berries in the capitol of Canada’s Yukon territory that the local environmental agency had to set up a drunk tank where people could bring birds that needed to safely sleep it off.
ADDICTION: FROM CRIME TO MALADY
Drugs, Fleas, Race, And Disease
The country’s centur-long war on drugs began at roughly the same time as San Francisco confronted the plague — and it too was framed with the lens of race.
HELPING THEM HELP THEMSELVES
The End Of Hitting Rock Bottom
A new "etiquette guide for dealing with addicts" says that by making drug-addicted loved ones feel listened to, empowered, and supported, family members can motivate them to seek help. And it appears to work.
MICHAEL DUCARCASS
Michael Dukakis Loves Turkey Carcasses
“Throwing out a turkey carcass is sinful. Absolutely sinful,” Dukakis says, in all seriousness. “It’s a terrible thing to do. There’s so much richness and goodness in a turkey carcass, God.”
MATERIAL RESULTS
The Real-World Consequences Of The Cloud
Private companies spend billions of dollars stuffing warehouses full of servers and expend huge amounts of energy keeping them cool. Nor is the cloud neutral political territory, with technological and ideological roots stretching back to the Cold War, when the military needed a communication network that wouldn’t fail even if many of its nodes and pathways were taken out by a nuclear bomb.
HELD FOR THE NEXT 120 DAYS
Two Suspects In Alleged Pokémon Plot Held Without Bail
Two Iowa men charged with plotting an attack at a Boston Pokémon competition were not “keyboard commandos,’’ but were heavily armed men prepared to commit the “mass casualty situation’’ they described in social media postings, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
CAN'T ESCAPE THIS KIND OF NEWS
Four Inmates Escape From Mississippi Jail; Three Still At Large
Three inmates at a Mississippi jail who were discovered missing during bed check are still at large, authorities said.
DEVELOPING
Live Updates From The Sentencing Of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is slated to return to a federal courtroom Wednesday morning to be officially sentenced to death for the April 15, 2013 terrorist attacks that shook the city.
'I AM SORRY FOR THE LIVES I HAVE TAKEN'
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Apologizes For Boston Marathon Bombing
An emotional Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev apologized Wednesday at his sentencing hearing for the April 2013 terror attack that killed three people and wounded more than 260 others.
GOOD ONE, GUYS
It's No Joke, Emerson College Offering A Comedy Major
A collective sigh of relief could be heard from Emerson English majors around campus as news of the upcoming Comedic Arts major was released, and a new department took the throne of least useful discipline.
WHAT DOES THAT WORD EVEN MEAN ANYWAY
How We Learned To Love Alanis Morissette's 'Irony'
According to critics, the lyrics of “Ironic” describe numerous unfortunate occurrences — a rainy wedding day, a death row pardon a few minutes too late — without the dramatic twist necessary for a true irony.
PUSHED TOO FAR
The Boy Who Burned Inside
There was no one to protect Marco Flores, and, just 9 when it started, he couldn’t protect himself. But then one day he realized that others he loved were in danger, and that it was up to him — up to him to end it.
'SUPERMAX' IS A BIT OF A MISNOMER
'A High-Tech Version Of Hell'
The Colorado Supermax prison houses the worst of the worst among federal inmates, most in utter isolation. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may soon call it home.
'WILL NOT CONTEST GOVERNMENT FACTS'
David Petraeus Fined And Sentenced To Two Years Probation For Leaks
Former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose career was destroyed by an extramarital affair with his biographer, was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Charlotte for giving her classified material while she was working on the book.
NOTHING TO LOSE NOW
Footage Shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Making Obscene Gesture
Jurors in the death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Wednesday were shown video of him making an obscene gesture as well as holding his fingers in the shape of “V” to a surveillance camera in a courthouse holding cell three months after he was arrested in the terror attack.
