Brian Gongol
CNN is dumping Piers Morgan
And not a moment too soon. He lacked any sense of humility. His problem was not that he was a Briton looking at American politics and issues -- it's that he was so utterly and openly contemptuous of so many American ways of doing things.
Radio notes: Brian Gongol Show on WHO Radio - February 23, 2014
The "And then China takes over" edition
The "word gap" in children's brains
(Video) Research suggests that kids from higher socioeconomic backgrounds get a huge head start over kids from lower-status backgrounds, just based upon the larger vocabularies of their parents. The gap appears incredibly early (before 18 months) and appears to be durable well into older age.
Microsoft drops Windows 8.1 cost to $15 for some OEMs
They're hoping a big cut in price might help stave off competition from Apple and Google
They may actually go ahead and build the Chicago Spire
A 2,000-foot tower in the Windy City. Necessary? Not in the least. But people do like a good symbol.
UIowa basketball coach tells players to suspend their Twitter accounts
There's been some unreasonable reaction by "fans" to some recent play. It's the behavior of unreasonable, immature jerks. But those people exist, and the Internet allows them to step up on a very public soapbox. For the time being, it may make sense for the coach to order his players off the virtual field in order to stop the bleeding. But it's really about time for universities to realize that the genie is out of the bottle and focus on training students (including student-athletes) to know what to say and when online. Prohibitions never last forever.
Are newspapers failing their communities?
Public power district discovers its waste sand is worth a fortune
Someday, America's landfills will be highly treasured for the resources they contain, too.
Income inequality by city
Obsession with inequality for its own sake isn't particularly productive. But if it is a symptom of other concerns, then knowing where it's large or small may be valuable.
There's over-sharing, and then there's being over-shared
Why smoke to get lung cancer when you can just breathe in China?
Rich democracies have the best environmental protection
Digital librarians claim science is expanding three times faster than in the mid-20th Century
How journalists drive scientists up the wall
Do remember, dear scientists, that at least the journalists may be trying. And if they stop, woe be unto all of us.
Delta turns frequent-flyer program on its head
The press may not be all that free in Hong Kong
Always have an offsite, offline backup of your most valuable photos
Your language affects how you think
Not just superficially -- it turns out, rather deeply
For her 100th birthday, a return to the skies
A woman who served as a WAVE during WWII gets another flight
Survey says: Majority of Americans are OK with same-sex marriage
Yahoo chats may have been snooped-upon by the spooks
The mayor who wins Twitter
Stripping the Ukranian treasury on the way out of town
Hipster brands, de-hipsterized
And in fact, mightily corporatized
Des Moines is firing on all cylinders
A news report by a TV station in Fort Wayne might as well just be the new Convention and Visitors' Bureau ad
Waking up in a body bag is probably still better than not waking up at all
It just happened to a man in Mississippi
No, giant walls across Tornado Alley won't stop tornadoes
Astronaut remains calm as his helmet fills with water
A nightmare only barely kept from turning to tragedy
How the Irish language was lost
Columnist draws an interesting contrast between Irish Gaelic and Hebrew
Study suggests that wind farms hamper hurricanes
Seems a little hard to believe; more study definitely needed