January 25, 2016

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Syria peace discussions begin today in Geneva, starting with “proximity talks,” where groups meet separately.

Winter Storm Jonas—the second-biggest snowstorm in New York City history—shuts down government offices in Washington, D.C.

Despite the travel ban in New York, some used the blizzard as a chance to snowboard with the NYPD. #video

Google uses star alpinists to make an immersive guide to Mont Blanc.

Lindsey Vonn claims 75th World Cup victory, closing on the record of 86 by Sweden’s Ingemar Stenmark.

After years of offensive stagnation, baseball is getting close to using a designated hitter.

Way before Disney, medieval Europe was obsessed with “self-moving” sculptures in political and religious spectacles.

Whitesboro, NY, decides to make a new emblem—no longer a white man throttling a Native American.

More public lynchings in Mexico this past year than at any other time in more than a quarter-century.

Black students half as likely as white students to be put on a “gifted” track—even with comparable test scores.

Drown the bunnies. Businessman hired to run university tells staff they need to convince some troubled students to quit.

How to elect Trump: Nominate Sanders; watch Bloomberg’s entrance yank away liberal votes; hail President Donald.

Obituary: Dying man’s final wish is that you don’t vote for Trump.

GOP’s response to the National Review’s anti-Trump special issue shows institutional caving.

Media descriptions of the attacks in Cologne wildly misreport that “rape mobs” are a part of Arab culture.

Sexual assault movement leaves behind women in black colleges, who face “a climate in which silence has become not only standard, but expected.”

Strunk and White’s Elements of Style leads the academic world’s list of most successful textbooks.

China leads the skyscraper race for the eighth year in a row.

Average age of a newly employed butler is 41, and 40% of people placed by the British Butler Academy are women.