Earlier today, Mariah Carey released a single, "The Art of Letting Go," which is teeming with 10-cent words. They include "audacity," "dominion," "evidently," "exceedingly," "liability," "reverberating," "subside." Accordingly, our Mariah Carey glossary has been updated.

In this week's issue of the New Yorker, a story by staff writer Ariel Levy details her experience traveling to Mongolia while pregnant—and losing her baby to a miscarriage. Reader beware: It will either make you want to curl up into a ball or go out and hug everyone you can.

The inspirational story of former Romanian orphan Cornel Hrisca-Munn was first brought to the Internet's attention three years ago in a Daily Telepraph profile about the seemingly insurmountable odds the young man overcame in order to establish himself as an acclaimed swimmer and drummer.

Barring a huge public works project the likes of which the world has never seen, south Florida is doomed. Its end will come not from Bugs Bunny wielding a saw, but from the gentle lapping of waves higher and higher upon the shore. Three points to ponder:

[A drunken reveler in a Gorilla costume takes a rest while a masked lady passes by in Cologne, Germany. Photo Martin Meissner via AP]

most powerful storm on record: A monster storm that's even worse than the last couple of nightmares we're still trying to recover from, but not as horrific as the one coming up next. Usage: "The most powerful storm on record is unrelated to global warming, a Senate Republican said."

World War II vet Harold Jellicoe "Coe" Percival passed away peacefully in his sleep last month at the age of 99. According to his obituary, Harold had "no close family who can attend his funeral."

The U.S. Postal Service will begin delivering Amazon shipments on Sundays, because Amazon is much more important than the U.S. Postal Service at this point.

Last week CBS correspondent Lara Logan announced that 60 Minutes would apologize on Sunday night’s broadcast for airing an interview with a Welsh security contractor named Dylan Davies, who lied about visiting the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, when it came under attack in September 2012. You can watch Logan’s tepid apology—in her words, a “correction”—in the video above.

A Russian conceptual artist known for his extreme political protests shocked tourists visiting Moscow's Red Square yestersay by nailing his scrotum to the cobblestone pavement as part of a protest marking Russia's annual Police Day.

Early Monday morning, a musician from Iran reportedly shot and killed two members of an Iranian-formed rock band before killing himself at an East Williamsburg, Brooklyn apartment. Another Iranian musician was also killed in the attack.

A white, anti-gay Republican candidate for public office stunned many in Houston last week when he defeated his African-American rival in a heavily African-American district. But none were more stunned than the voters themselves, who believed they were voting for a black man.

Sacha Baron Cohen stunned the audience at Saturday's Britannia Awards by killing his elderly award presenter on stage.

Heads up headphone users: This thing gets loud.

Though the official death toll from Typhoon Haiyan now stands at 1,563, officials in the Philippines believe as many as 10,000 people were killed in the city of Tacloban alone. The typhoon, which struck the Philippines on Friday, is now being called the largest storm surge in modern history.

The Russian Police Choir, officially known as the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Choir, recorded a video performance of Daft Punk's "Get Lucky." And it's as hilarious as it sounds.

[During her ARTPOP album release and artRave event at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Sunday, Lady Gaga demonstrated the Volantis transport prototype "flying dress." "Although she is a vehicle," she said of the dress, "she is essentially a metaphor for me." Photo by Evan Agostini via AP]

What would it look like if you filmed a year of your life in one-second shots? Michał Mikołaj Wojtunik, who spent ten months documenting his world travels on film, attempts to answer this question in his "Bits of Life" montage.

[Residents transport bags of rice to those in need Sunday night in the devastating aftermath of Typhoon Haiyahn near Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines. Without power in the central province, the only illumination in the dark streets comes from flashlights and headlights. Photo by Jeoffrey Maitem via Getty]

What holiday season is complete without a can of whipped cream in the fridge? Sure, homemade is better, but there's nothing quite like the joy of sneaking a midnight mouthful of aerosol's finest.