Thursday, February 13, 2014

Published 11:56 a.m. CDT (GMT - 6:00)

Yesterday's Google trends and today's Twitter (U.S.) trending now

Today's headlines
What they're leading with
▪ CNN: Wife of Tennessee lawyer dies after Monday's mail bomb explosion
▪ NBCNews: Sochi Olympics, Michael Sam comes out, Deep freeze
▪ NPR: Northeast, New England brace as ice and snow move up coast; Afghans release 65 prisoners the U.S. deems dangerous
▪ FoxNews: Winter storm wreaking havoc along the East Coast after slamming South
▪ ABCNews: Top Russian figure skater in Sochi out after injury; Student's murder leaves Va. tech reeling; Not done yet: Another  snowstorm wallops northeast; Latest headline
▪ CBSNews: Massive storm moves north, hitting Mid-Atlantic, Northeast
▪ USAToday: GM recalling 620,000 compacts for fatal risk; Deadly winter storm paralyzes South, roars up East Coast

Olympic (ancillary) news
▪ CNN: Tinder (dating app) is "next level' in Olympic village
▪ NBCNews: Whiteout: Monster snowstorm wipes out power for half million
▪ NPR: 'Stomping' and 'shredding the gnar' -- a brief slopestyle glossary
▪ FoxNews: Animal activists smuggling stray dogs out of Sochi

Obamacare
▪ NPR: After January surge, more than 3 million have enrolled in Obamacare

Weather news
▪ CNN: Not done yet: Winter storm takes aim at Northeast

Flooding in England news
CNN: Floods hit homes in England as wild weather batters Europe

Sinkhole news
▪ CNN: Corvette museum to reopen after sinkhole swallowed pricey cars

401(k)/Retirement savings news
▪ CNN: 401(k) balances hit record $89,300

Vegetarian news
▪ CBSNews: Where's the beef? Company creates plant-based meat substitutes (Beyond Meat)

Cell phone wars
▪ NBCNews: Wireless wars: Verizon slashes prices after pressure from rivals

Cable wars
▪ NPR: Will Comcast get federal OK to buy Time Warner
▪ USAToday: Cable TV customers can't get no satisfaction

Smoking/menopause news
▪ NBCNews: Smoking can speed menopause for some women

PR recovery news
▪ NPR: Paula Deen cooks up $75 million deal with investor

Moment-of-opportunity news
▪ NPR: Substitute racer takes Olympic silver in Sochi

Ancient DNA news (Human migration) (Anzick site in Montana)
▪ NPR: Ancient DNA ties native Americans from two continents to Clovis
▪ CBSNews: 12,000-year-old baby DNA unlocks clues to earliest Americans

Ecommerce safety news
▪ CBSNews: Amazon, Macy's score low in password security study

Online dating news
▪ NPR: Dating sites offer chance at love -- and a lesson in economics

Animal news
▪ FoxNews: Crocodiles are able to climb trees, study reveals

It's-not-fiction news
▪ CNN: Corvette museum to reopen after sinkhole swallowed pricey cars 
▪ NBCNews: Eww! Fruit-fly larva infests woman's ear
▪ USAToday: Doctors find 44-year-old fetus in woman, 84 (stone baby, lithopedian)

Beautiful math news/Neurological basis for beauty/Euler's identity/medial orbito-frontal cortex
▪ BBC: Mathematics: Why the brain sees math as beauty

Obituaries in the news
▪ USAToday: Dignitaries, family bid farewell to Joan Mondale


Yesterday's Google trends with at least 200,000 searches
Kaitlyn Farrington
▪ USAToday: SA's Kaitlyn Farrington wins halfpipe gold

Derek Jeter
▪ USAToday: Derek Jeter all class, goes out on his own terms

Blake Griffin
▪ USAToday: Blake Griffin goes off as Clippers edge Trail Blazers

Sid Caesar
▪ See Trendilla from yesterday (Wednesday, February 12, 2014)

Corvette Museum
▪ See 'sinkhole' above


Yesterday's Google trends with at least 100,000 but <200,000 searches
Yvette Prieto
▪ CBSNews: Michael Jordan, Yvette Prieto welcome twin girls