Headlines from January 10, 2014

Rachel Maddow speculates: Christie wasn’t targeting Fort Lee mayor with bridge closures, but NJ Senator Loretta Weinberg.
Small enough to fit in a handbag. India firearms company launches exclusive revolver for women.
Until 1912, visitors to Niagara Falls could walk on the ice bridge—it’s refrozen, but not to that point yet. #photos
See also: Lake Michigan’s surface covered in rolling spheres of ice. #video
[Philip] Roth, the rebellious son, the fleshliest of writers, is turning into a monument before our eyes.
Compared to the haiku and limerick, the listicle form is gloriously underspecified. #language
A fascinating—and complete—etymological guide to European Jewish last names.
Between 2000 and 2012, newspaper ad revenue dropped by around the same amount Google’s ad revenue soared.
Chlamydia is the most prolific CDC disease on record—more worrisome is gonorrhea, now antibiotic-resistant.
To survive, dating websites need to keep people single as much as they need to generate matches.
Would the real Joseph Gordon-Levitt use the profile name “TheRealJosephGordonLevitt” on OkCupid? #tmn
Cultural curiosity much like what’s happened with sleazy romance novels. Mein Kampf e-book sales surge.
New research shows that people subconsciously implement a one-in, one-out policy when making new friends.
Population-wise, the United States could hold 10 Canadas.
Iceland brewery to offer beer with the ground up bones of fin whales.
Bashford Dean, eccentric founder of the Met’s armory department, was also passionate about fish.
Too expensive for a character-driven picture. Hollywood wouldn’t green-light Rain Man today.
Watch Last Call, a documentary about New York City in the ‘90s. #longviews #video