One is the loneliest number

1,000,000—Dollar amount of the reward offered for ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner. All turn to dust again. (USA Today)

34,000—Troops Obama promised, during his State of the Union address, to bring home from Afghanistan in the next year. (NY Times)

24—Hours it takes a sea slug to regrow its detachable penis. (BBC)

16—Papal wardrobe malfunctions. Janet Jackson would be proud. (Buzzfeed)

5—Reasons given for disliking Valentine’s day by DateMySchool.com’s Columbia graduates. (Glamour)

And a partridge in a pear tree?

Bird and fruit Christmas gift set via Shutterstock

Cats and dogs living together! Mass hysteria!

As Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago teachers union continue their negotiations over pizza the public school system, one complaint that hasn’t been addressed is the lack of air conditioning in many classrooms. Wait, we’re allowed to protest about that? (HuffPost)

Meanwhile, New York reasserts its dominance as the world’s best (and most confused) city, as the results are in on a primary between two Republican state senators…who both support gay marriage. (NYT)

Researchers from Columbia University worked with PepsiCo to develop a new software that calculates products’ carbon footprints using estimated emission factors, which we should probably all be proud of, if only we could understand what that means. (R&D)

Unrest in the Middle East continues, but the Pope should be able to sort everything out. (Reuters)

Finally, Amanda Bynes is having a love affair with reckless driving, after allegedly “smoking something from a ‘drug pipe.’” (Gawker)

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