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February 2014
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- February 28th
- Academy Awards 2014: Your definitive Oscar prediction list
- Pharrell: Blurred Lines was 'misconstrued'
- 6 ways to boost your financial aid for college
- This long, snowy winter is crushing your spirit — and the labor market
- The week's best photojournalism
- These new 3D shapes could help us combat herpes and fight climate change
- Girls on Film: Why Before Midnight is a failure
- How to make fancy ramen at home
- 'Three parent' pregnancies aren't as creepy as they sound
- 5 expert ways to deal with difficult people — and make them love you
- Our dangerous mistake in Ukraine
- Why does 'will not' become 'won't'?
- We know how Bitcoin Prohibition would end
- An interview with Hannibal showrunner Bryan Fuller and star Hugh Dancy
- Sad but true: Oscar voters are old, white, male, and petty
- The Air Force still doesn't get it
- February 27th
- A common sense guide to planning your wedding
- Why Vikings is television's boldest historical drama
- The week at a glance...International
- A drug kingpin’s capture
- Downsizing the military
- The week at a glance...Americas
- Facial-hair transplants for hipsters, and more
- “Pop up” wetlands for migratory birds, and more
- Good week, Bad week
- The bottom line
- Editor's letter: Electronic cocoons
- The return of childhood diseases
- The news at a glance
- The week at a glance...United States
- Putin ratchets up pressure on Ukraine
- Expanded scope for warrantless searches
- How to make food that lasts forever
- A Hipstamatic teen spirit
- Would Americans support a military intervention in Ukraine?
- The 5 secrets to a great relationship (according to research)
- Today in history: The two-term limitation begins
- The 6 biggest myths about money
- The race for Arctic oil: Russia vs. U.S.
- Why are Millennials less religious? It's not just because of gay marriage
- The Week contest — Indestructible pizza
- February 26th
- What medical mistakes can teach us about human error
- Also of interest...in history’s trailblazers
- Show of the week: Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey
- For those who have everything: TheUp T-Shirt
- Gossip
- Background checks: Proof that they work?
- Author of the week: ‘Johnny Walker’
- Movies on TV
- Best apps…For better fitness results
- Charity of the week: Graywolf Press
- Beer: Helles lagers
- E-cigarettes: The coming crackdown
- Innovation of the week
- Tip of the week...How to dust better
- Ukraine: Torn between Europe and Russia
- Maria von Trapp, 1914–2014
- Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street’s Post-Crash Recruits by Kevin Roose
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- Cyrus’s kid phobia
- What the experts say
- The roots of Mortimer’s insecurity
- Bytes: What’s new in tech
- Getting the flavor of...
- The best...daily travel gear
- Alice Herz-Sommer, 1903–2014
- Art vandalism: When is a rebel just a jerk?
- Crosby’s survival instinct
- Recipe of the week: Tigua Indian ‘bowl of red’
- The Wind Rises
- Issue of the week: Facebook’s $19B WhatsApp deal
- The Sochi Games: A spectacular success?
- The future: Will automation and tech revive the economy?
- Health & Science
- Oscar night: Has even Hollywood lost interest?
- Best properties on the market
- The 2014 Mini Cooper: What the critics say
- Book of the week: The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class by Fred Siegel
- How to shake a vending machine, and more
- Critics’ choice: Small restaurants, big flavors
- Best books...chosen by Rosie Perez
- Exhibit of the week: Pawel Althamer: The Neighbors
- The Bridges of Madison County
- Harold Ramis, 1944–2014
- Retirement: Trimming the match on 401(k)s
- Wit & Wisdom
- This week’s dream: A train through old Germany
- Why do Keynesians prefer government spending over private spending?
- Remote-controlled cargo ships are a great idea — unless you're a pirate
- The mysterious beauty of the female in transition
- How a Louis Vuitton bag can explain the higher education bubble
- Guess who's working at home? It's not who you think.
- 7 ways to be the most interesting person in any room
- 20 essential dishes to get you through the winter
- Is your spouse committing financial infidelity?
- Watch The Daily Show explain Ukraine to Republicans
- February 25th
- Why Elon Musk should be Apple's next CEO
- A drop in obesity: the skinny on those new statistics
- The power of irrationally positive thinking
- How the VA is leading the way on LGBT patient care
- 11 words and phrases popularized by World War I
- Noah: Watch the visually stunning new trailer for the biblical epic
- Mt Gox is dying. That's a good thing for Bitcoin.
- Today in history: The country's first cabinet meeting
- 10 ways to treat yourself to dinner for one
- Is poor forecasting the Achilles heel of economics?
- How poor planning and impulsiveness can lead to big wins in life
- How to swallow a sword
- Venezuela isn't going to be another Ukraine
- Watch Seth Meyers goad Joe Biden in his Late Night debut
- Your Oscar playlist: Listen to 80 years of Best Original Song winners
- February 24th
- This incredible magnetic fluid may be the future of biotechnology
- How Christianity gave us gay marriage
- Did the Fed undercut Obama's stimulus?
- Harold Ramis, legendary comedic director, is dead at 69
- The 3 big myths propping up unpaid internships
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Watch the rise of Electro
- The U.S. is not regressing to a 'pre-World War II' army
- 10 movies that got great performances from actors... by torturing them
- Why Elon Musk should be Apple's next CEO
- The faces of Baltimore
- The easiest way to stop making stupid mistakes at the office
- Just got a bonus? Here's how to (smartly) spend a windfall.
- The single most proven way to get smarter and happier
- The mental anguish of the long-term unemployed
- Will Putin let Ukraine go?
- The linguistic lessons of Pig Latin
- Personal finance tips: The problem with platinum cards, and more
- February 23rd
- February 22nd
- February 21st
- Our favorite Sochi slang
- Watch a preview of the raunchier cut of Anchorman 2
- Yes, Netflix really is slower — and it's probably Verizon's fault
- The Fantastic Four: Everything we know so far
- This stunning infographic shows where our 25 active space missions are
- WhatsApp and the economics of free stuff
- The Olympics' most diehard fans
- How to ensure it's a boy (according to 100-year-old pregnancy guides)
- How do you weaponize a rabbit?
- The secret strategy behind the black widow's bite
- Girls on Film: The forgotten legacy of Sex and the City
- 10 infuriating consumer fees to stop paying now
- Today in history: Nixon's world-changing trip to China
- Here are the 7 things that can make you wildly successful
- Elks, Shriners, and Masons: How 'old man' frats got their names and symbols
- February 20th
- Hosting the Olympics in New York City is a terrible idea
- The bottom line
- A mixed verdict in Florida
- The news at a glance
- The future of news
- Where's the rock salt?, and more
- Good week, Bad week
- A long-lost sister right next door, and more
- Voting: Should ex-felons regain the right to cast ballots?
- Editor's letter: The real cause of income inequality
- Ukraine on the brink of civil war
- The real reason for America's falling labor participation rate
- 4 surprising things Facebook has learned from your relationship status
- Olympians in the blink of an eye
- The week's best video-on-demand: The Broken Circle Breakdown, Love and Air Sex, and Nurse 3D
- The perfect chicken soup recipe for flu season
- No, this chart does not portend a financial apocalypse
- Americans are racking up debt again. Should we be scared?
- Watch Brian Williams unwittingly perform 'Rappers Delight' on The Tonight Show
- I refused to marry my husband — until he was debt-free
- 4 life hacks from ancient philosophers that will make you happier
- House hunting: 6 eclectic homes for artists
- Egypt's violent spiral is only getting worse
- The Week contest — tax deduction
- February 19th
- Facebook just bought WhatsApp for $16 billion — and that money could have been better spent
- The 6 most ridiculous lies and hoaxes of the Sochi Olympics
- Be afraid of watch lists
- 12 more insane movie props you can buy on eBay right now
- Show of the week: The Americans
- Movies on TV
- And for those who have everything: TheRyno
- Also of interest...in snapshots of the ’60s
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- Gossip
- The week at a glance...International
- New on DVD and Blu-ray
- Author of the week: Jennifer Senior
- Best apps for limiting ‘cyberloafing’
- Climate change: The ‘cold winter’ debate
- The week at a glance...Europe
- Date and Switch
- Pinot grigio: Not all bland
- Tip of the week: Annual kitchen maintenance
- Travolta’s royal dance
- Italy: Can ‘Fonzie’ save the day?
- Education: Is universal pre-K worth its cost?
- Innovation of the week
- Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell
- Sid Caesar, 1922–2014
- Charity of the week: Pheasants Forever
- The best...pet accessories
- What the experts say
- The week at a glance...Americas
- Adult World
- Getting the flavor of...
- Bytes: What’s new in tech
- Gloria Leonard, 1940–2014
- The honorary Lithuanian Olympian
- Chicken wings: A beer snack goes haute
- Best properties on the market
- This week’s dream: A Cuban town barely touched by the 20th century
- Taxes: What to know for 2014
- Issue of the week: Comcast buying Time Warner Cable
- The news at a glance...United States
- Wit & Wisdom
- About Last Night
- 2014 Jeep Cherokee: What the critics say
- Gay marriage: Now coming to the red states?
- Dating: Is the Web getting in the way of love?
- Health & Science
- Best books...chosen by Adam Sternbergh
- Ralph Waite, 1928–2014
- Young boy goes joyriding, and more
- Exhibit of the week: An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle
- Book of the week: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
- Corned beef: A tradition worth planning for
- Farrell’s drunken love
- Heroin’s lethal comeback
- Obama is still wrong: Art history degrees are worth a lot
- 9 jaw-dropping photos that will make you believe in ice dancing
- Why China wants to lead the world in 3D printing
- The cult of amateurism plaguing the sports world
- How to create your own cat breed
- How great partnerships work
- Today in history: The shameful forced removal of Japanese-Americans
- Guardians of the Galaxy: Watch the engagingly offbeat first trailer
- Why the Interior Department desperately needs beat reporters
- How to throw a cheap dumpling party
- How online dating became a $2 billion industry
- Russia is winning the battle for Ukraine
- Cheaters do prosper. Just ask a cuckoo.
- What's up with the recent rash of banker suicides?
- Why we like to watch athletes cry
- 6 reasons why U.S. speed skating stalled in Sochi
- February 18th
- Watch every deleted scene from Game of Thrones season 3
- Angel Olsen's 6 favorite songs
- Has baseball reached peak bobblehead?
- The empty cynicism of House of Cards
- How cold peanut butter could help us predict volcanic eruptions
- Lessons of The Bachelor: How to exit a reality show with dignity
- The trippy helmets of the Sochi skeleton races
- North Korea isn't Nazi Germany — in some ways, it's worse
- Obama's stimulus succeeded — even if it was too small
- How Wall Street turns its pups into wolves
- What online dating can teach us about economics
- 8 steps to getting the perfect mentor
- How to write the sound of a kiss
- The online 'cookie' has turned stale. Here's what advertisers are cooking up to replace it.
- Watch Jimmy Fallon's earnest, all-star Tonight Show debut
- February 17th
- House hunting: 6 gorgeous homes in Montana
- Paris might turn abandoned metro stations into nightclubs and theaters
- What makes games like Flappy Bird so addictive?
- 5 ways to build a good relationship with anyone
- Our favorite fake presidents from movies and TV
- How dangerous is Fukushima's radioactive water?
- Personal finance tips: Help for shopaholics, and more
- The military is weaponizing video games
- Confessions of an Edward Snowden apologist
- Confessions of an NSA apologist
- February 16th
- February 15th
- February 14th
- Michael Sam, the Miami Dolphins, and the NFL's 'pattern of harassment'
- 8 poems for Valentine's Day
- Would nuclear fusion be economically viable?
- 14 financial valentines to give your sweetheart
- The week's best photojournalism from Sochi
- The Tennessee GOP's union-thwarting push has backfired
- Watch actual members of Congress read lines from House of Cards
- Lottery winners become more right-wing, study finds
- Everything you wanted to know about polyamory but were afraid to ask
- The samurai secret to always being at your best
- Girls on Film: The sanitization of Endless Love
- The bizarre sex lives of spiders
- There's no economic boost from raising the debt ceiling
- How to make the perfect chocolate soufflé
- Watch 26 of Hollywood's most romantic movie moments in just 90 seconds
- Facebook offers users 56 new gender options: Here's what they mean
- February 13th
- It's time for Netflix to stop acting like television
- Sneckdowns: How snowstorms can teach us to build smarter roads
- Gossip
- The bottom line
- American Kidney Fund
- Barrymore’s straight life
- What the experts say
- The fading football star
- Sculpture raises ire of Wellesley students, and more
- Shopping: The perils of debit cards
- Good week, Bad week
- Delaying the Obamacare business mandate—again
- Editor's letter: The snow in Sochi
- Sportsmanship at Sochi, and more
- The news at a glance
- Left for dead
- McConaughey’s wanderlust
- The Sochi Games: A disaster for Putin?
- The stunning reflections of the Sochi Olympics
- If you get a PhD, make it an economics PhD
- How a $10.10 minimum wage could raise 4.6 million Americans out of poverty
- The hidden beauty of mathematics
- 13 comfort foods for this long winter
- How Keynes would handle an abnormally slow recovery
- 11 naughty sounding scientific names (and what they really mean)
- The slow death of capital punishment in America
- 9 musical artists to watch in 2014
- What a set of serrated teeth could tell us about ancient ecology
- The Week contest — Brain space
- There's no way Comcast will buy Time Warner Cable
- February 12th
- Television legend Sid Caesar dead at 91
- Show of the week: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
- Movies on TV
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- For those who have everything: Tactical Laser-Guided Pizza Cutter
- Also of interest…in outcasts and fugitives
- Author of the week: B.J. Novak
- New on DVD and Blu-ray
- Best apps for delivering the news
- The week at a glance...International
- Savennières is “not an easygoing sort of wine.”
- A Field in England
- Tip of the week: How to recover from strenuous exercise
- The week at a glance...Europe
- Seinfeld: The color of comedy
- Maxine Kumin, 1925–2014
- Call Me Burroughs: A Life by Barry Miles
- Innovation of the week
- Getting the flavor of...
- Bytes: What’s new in tech
- RoboCop
- The week at a glance...Americas
- Gay in the NFL: Michael Sam comes out
- The best of…problem-solving kitchen gadgets
- Ralph Kiner, 1922–2014
- Picturing Mexico: Alfredo Ramos Martínez in California
- Recipe of the week: Homemade processed cheese
- This week’s dream: A reawakening Cape Town
- The 2015 Subaru WRX: What the critics say
- Critics’ choice: Three takes on the 21st-century tavern
- The week at a glance...United States
- Taking aim at Kroger's, and more
- Obamacare: Eroding America’s work ethic?
- Wit & Wisdom
- Privacy: Going anonymous on the Internet
- Health & Science
- Book of the week: Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming by McKenzie Funk
- Exhibit of the week: What Is a Photograph?
- Best properties on the market
- The Lego Movie
- Issue of the week: AOL’s million-dollar babies
- Russia: Why is everyone so critical of Sochi?
- Best books…chosen by Diane Johnson
- Shirley Temple Black, 1928–2014
- Why Greta Gerwig fans shouldn't panic over How I Met Your Dad
- The most cringe-worthy Olympic wipeouts
- The Purge 2: Watch the nerve-wracking new trailer
- Today in history: The birth of the Great Emancipator
- Transcendence: Watch the trailer for Johnny Depp's new sci-fi mind-bender
- What Warren Buffett can teach us about the power of focus
- 9 vodka drinks to make for the Sochi Olympics
- The troubling gender gap in retirement savings
- The Tea Party has become grotesquely fiscally irresponsible
- How do nuclear power plants work?
- The deep shame of capital punishment in America
- How they see us: Crudely insulting our allies
- February 11th
- Exploring The Fly Room and the foundation of modern genetics
- Why do some animals have spikes, while others have armor?
- The Olympics' longstanding gender gap
- The Olympics take flight
- Watch Scarlett Johansson as an alien seductress in Under the Skin
- Why aren't you going to Australia?
- The U.S. is in an under-the-radar space race with China — and it's losing
- Why do Americans vastly overestimate how much the U.S. spends on foreign aid?
- Remembering Shirley Temple: Watch the Screen Actors Guild's fascinating tribute
- Sex toys get social
- How your busy schedule could be controlling your mind
- What do the Olympic rings mean?
- How ObamaCare might undermine labor unions
- Watch The Daily Show celebrate the Olympics with Cold War nostalgia
- February 10th
- Watch Samuel L. Jackson explode on a local news anchor for confusing him with Laurence Fishburne
- The sluggish economy's hidden toll on women
- Woody Allen, nihilist
- Maybe lions aren't cheetah-murdering monsters after all
- Get your free House of Cards-themed Cards Against Humanity
- 4 reasons The Walking Dead is finally good again
- How likely are virus outbreaks on cruises?
- 4 crazy, early foreign language versions of Beatles songs
- The spectacular rush of an Olympic victory
- The world's mass migration to cities may slow down — or reverse
- Watch the best (and worst) of the Grammys' salute to the Beatles
- How to train your brain to be happy
- Game of Thrones season 4: Watch a 15-minute preview
- Today in history: February 10
- House hunting: 6 homes with unique building materials
- How to make your own hot cocoa mix
- Income inequality's sneaky culprit
- Will any NFL team draft an openly gay Michael Sam?
- The evolution of Facebook's pronoun problem
- Personal finance tips: Canceling a gym membership, and more
- February 9th
- February 8th
- February 7th
- Winter Olympic mascots, ranked
- Why so many people struggle with doge
- The top 1 percent don't work harder for their money — they work less
- The 9 best outfits at the Sochi Olympics' Opening Ceremony
- How long until your signature is obsolete?
- America's retirement crisis might not be as bad as we thought
- Why The LEGO Movie is the new Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Why Google unloaded Motorola
- What can be done about January's disappointing jobs numbers?
- The financialization of food
- Today in history: February 7
- A common sense guide to your first tattoo
- Girls on Film: 9 forgotten rom-coms worth watching this Valentine's Day
- America's private sector army
- 12 slow-cooking recipes for the weekend
- Watch Jay Leno's tearful, star-packed Tonight Show farewell
- 5 ways to judge the Sochi Olympics
- How to train your shark
- The heroic true story behind the real-life 'Monuments Men'
- February 6th
- The 5 weirdest winter sports that didn't make the Olympics
- The week at a glance...International
- The bottom line
- Obamacare’s jobs effect
- The week at a glance...Americas
- Maximilian Schell, 1930–2014
- Silicon Valley reveals scope of NSA requests
- A neurosurgeon's six-mile trek, and more
- The week at a glance...United States
- The news at a glance
- Health officials close sixth-grader's cupcake business, and more
- Issue of the week: Why Google unloaded Motorola
- The secret of the Ouija board
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, 1967–2014
- Editor's letter: The real reason you’re so forgetful
- Captain Phillips, and the political evolution of Paul Greengrass
- Why Microsoft should cheer Bill Gates' return
- Can you really overdose on weed?
- Watch the most awkward moments from the last time Jay Leno 'retired' from The Tonight Show
- Maybe America's energy grid is safer than we thought
- This week's new and notable video-on-demand releases
- How do you pronounce 'Sochi'?
- An open letter to my husband: Don't ask me what I'm up to today
- Today in history: February 6
- The Winter Olympics of yore
- What Warren Buffett would say about your stressful work environment
- The psychology of video game addiction
- The one quick way to boost worker productivity
- How country, NPR, and Limbaugh are keeping radio alive
- The Week contest — Wearable tech
- February 5th
- Glenn Beck froze Barack Obama in carbonite — and you can buy him for $3500
- Show of the week: House of Cards
- Movies on TV
- Also of interest…in feats of bravery
- For those who have everything: Rubber Band-Machine Gun
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- New on DVD and Blu-ray
- The superrich: Facing a Holocaust?
- Best apps for keeping kids and their relatives connected
- Gossip
- Author of the week: E.L. Doctorow
- At Middleton
- The pop star who doesn’t smile
- Innovation of the week
- Tip of the week: Quick-response stain-removal strategies
- Wine: Bright Aussie reds
- Johansson: Defending an Israeli company
- Charity of the week: Mercy Corps
- Italy: Convicting Amanda Knox with no evidence
- My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead
- What the experts say
- Obamacare: Why the uninsured aren’t happy
- The new dinner theater: Tableside flourishes return to New York
- Bytes: What’s new in tech
- Getting the flavor of...
- Woody Allen: The pedophile question
- Muhammad Ali’s impoverished son
- Charlie Victor Romeo
- The best...home alert devices
- A name like no other, and more
- Parton’s confidence in Miley
- Health & Science
- The 2015 Kia K900: What the critics say
- Retirement: Introducing the MyRA
- Wit & Wisdom
- Abortion rate falls to new low, and more
- Media: Facebook’s groundbreaking news app
- The Monuments Men
- Seaweed: The second coming of kale?
- Best properties on the market
- The costly fallacy of green energy
- This week’s dream: The surreal beauty of Mexico’s Costa Alegre
- Book of the week: The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America by Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld
- Best books…chosen by Rabih Alameddine
- Tunisia: The only bloom of the Arab Spring
- Exhibit of the week: Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video
- The beauty of winter's wrath
- Jay Leno is still taking potshots at Conan O'Brien
- Why Sochi's terrible bathrooms are the perfect symbol for Putin's Olympics
- America is separating into peasants and scholar-gentry
- The newest STD: Lyme disease?
- Watch comics legend Stan Lee make a big cameo in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- How did Americans manage to lose $119 billion gambling last year?
- Philip Seymour Hoffman's overdose: Don't expect anyone to serve time
- Why it's important to keep a notebook
- How Japan won the internet
- A common sense guide to online dating
- What Parks & Recreation can learn from Community
- Yes, West Virginia, a private prison transfer is a terrible idea
- February 4th
- What's the correct pronunciation of February?
- What's the point of regulating lemonade stands?
- A visual tribute to Eddie Aikau, surfing's trailblazer of the big swell
- Today in history: February 4
- The science behind anti-redhead prejudice
- What does your favorite music say about you?
- Why is heroin so cheap?
- Science has a formula for when you can tell jokes about tragedy
- February 3rd
- Is Thailand on the verge of splitting up?
- God was the Super Bowl MVP, says America
- Why did so few Super Bowl ads feature women?
- The heartbreaking resilience of human trafficking
- Watch Optimus Prime ride a robotic T-Rex in Transformers: Age of Extinction
- Study: Living near a fracking well may increase the risk of birth defects
- Damn, it feels good to be a Super Bowl champion
- Philip Seymour Hoffman: An extraordinary, irreplaceable actor
- Janet Yellen, Christine Lagarde, and a new era for women in finance
- Why we should pay more attention to our ability to focus
- Debunking 5 Keystone pipeline myths
- 10 brutal reviews from the January movie dump
- What grocery stores can teach us about linguistics
- Why the falling abortion rate calls for a truce in the culture war
- The best wines to hunker down with
- Only Peru can save us from UFO terror
- Why does Q almost always go with a U?
- Making money: Letting go of landlines, and more
- Watch Seth Meyers say goodbye to SNL, with help from friends
- What's the deal with that Seinfeld reunion?
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