In January, two little entrepreneurs girls wanted to set up a stand outside their San Francisco (duh) home to sell cookies and lemonade. That business plan just wasn't disruptive enough for their mother, Holly, a tech worker in the city, who set the girls up with a "wallet" for the anonymous digital currency Bitcoin and a QR code so they could accept the currency, Forbes' Kashmir Hill reports.

A retired teacher was arrested after she repeatedly ignored a judge's order to stop feeding black bears in back yard. When police officers arrived at her home to arrest her, the 81-year-old reportedly threatened to kill them.

Howard Kurtz and Lauren Ashburn’s minute-long video segments for the Daily Download are still, somehow, airing on public television. (You can inspect the program’s survey results here.) What would America do without the Daily Download?

It's time to get upset about Amy "Tiger Mother" Chua again. Or is it? "I don't want to be controversial," the now-famous Yale Law professor told the New York Times Magazine in a profile published this past weekend. "I just want to be liked."

The stock market, which will never go down, fell another 326 points today.

New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan, concerned about the one-sidedness of Nicholas Kristof's handling of Dylan Farrow's abuse allegations against Woody Allen, refers readers to an even more one-sided take on the story ("illuminating ... essential context").

In 2012, there were an estimated 14 million new cases of cancer worldwide. Man, that's nothing.

Just like Christmas Day and Thanksgiving, porn viewership was down significantly during the Super Bowl, especially in Denver and Seattle, where the number of viewers on PornHub dropped 51% and 61%. Across the country, porn watching was down about 32% during the game.

What's the best way to challenge campus patriarchy and critique male fantasies of sorority initiations? By getting nekkid with the sisters and making out in the stacks, baby.

The NYPD reportedly found 70 bags of heroin labeled "Ace of Spades" or "Ace of Heart" in the apartment of Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was discovered dead of a drug overdose yesterday morning. Police have launched a citywide hunt for Hoffman's drug dealer.

In the past week, Goldman Sachs has been credited with bringing down the government of Denmark and saving the government of Libya. Seems like a good system.

[Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, arrive at federal court for a motions hearing in Richmond, Virginia, on Monday. Lawyers for McDonnell and his wife are expected to ask a judge to clarify who the former first couple can speak with prior to their July trial on corruption charges. Image via Steve Helber/AP.]

A ten-year-old child in Maryland was impaled this morning in a terrible sledding accident.

Last month, the National Labor Relations Board charged Wal-Mart with illegally retaliating against workers trying to organize. Wal-Mart says those workers' activities don't deserve legal protection. This seems like a good time to hear from some actual Wal-Mart workers.

Good news for fetuses: the rate of U.S. abortions have hit a new low under President Obama. Not since the legalization of abortion during the Nixon Administration in 1973 has the abortion rate been so low, at just 16.9 abortions per 1,000 pregnancies.

Warning: BuzzFeed's "Which '90s Alt-Rock Grrrl Are You?" quiz may not be entirely accurate.

Four months ago, New Yorker writer Susan Orlean revealed that a Buzzfeed creative strategist named Jacob Bakkila was behind the popular "spam" Twitter account @Horse_ebooks. Today, her article has been published (subscription-only); this is Orlean on "Weird Twitter":

Whenever Parks and Recreation aired, Larry Gallagher noticed that his young son would start excitedly flailing his arms and dancing. So every Thursday night, Gallagher decided to film his son as the show's theme song played. The hilarious result is this three-minute, dance-filled clip.

"I think water's, like, a really important thing." - Miley Cyrus, whom Ronan Farrow describes as "Molly Bloom for the Instagram set" in his funny, half-empathetic/half-condescending W magazine profile of she who can't be tamed.

The Nybro Action Team consists of Hjalmar Sveinbjőrnsson and Alex Bejerstrand, two under-employed friends and former Nybro residents now living in northern Sweden. Hjalmar is a student and a chef; Alex helps run his father's talent agency. They will be recapping Season 3 of HBO's Girls.