• With shootings and other violence on the rise inside and outside neighborhood watering holes, police blame Pennsylvania’s “ineffective” liquor laws for their inability to close nuisance bars. [Daily News]
• Now that a study shows caffeine cravings may be genetic, you have one more thing to blame on your parents. [USAT]
• Guess what? Humans are hardwired to emotionally eat — it doesn’t have to be a problem. [CNN]
• France is planning a sort of giant market called the “Cité de la Gastronomie” to immortalize its cuisine, but six months in, the project has basically no funding. Dommage! [WSJ]
• How many calories are in that dish? Oh, snap: A new app can tell you. [Cnet]