Monday

Team USA's performance at the Winter Olympics, Norway's overall medal count, the US men's hockey team's victory over Canada, the cultural impact of hockey on music preferences, the viral popularity of Punch the Monkey, the resale market for Punch's stuffed orangutan, the rising cost of magazines, a software engineer's discovery about robot vacuums spying on users, Stuart Copeland's spoken word tour, Amazon surpassing Walmart in revenue, Eric Dane's passing and its implications, the disparity in public sympathy for famous versus non-famous individuals who pass away young, Eddie Vedder's decision to quit smoking after talking to Martin Short.