The Morning News

From a flower child's ice-cream pitch to an austere, bedroom-eyes sake ad to a celebrity-heavy XFM spot, David Bowie's appearances in television commercials astutely picked up on the trends of their times.

18h

Albums are already dying. The popularity of Spotify playlists hints at the end of musical genres.

↩︎ The Guardian 18h

Social-engineering hackers are beating 2FA by duping mobile providers into transferring phone numbers.

↩︎ The New York Times 18h

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is the first of its kind that can photograph the universe's dark energy.

↩︎ Atlas Obscura 18h

"You can put all the risk assessments in place but you really don't expect people to try to get into the artifacts."

Museum visitors broke an 800-year-old coffin after posing their child inside it.

↩︎ BBC

19h

Farmers in France have a 22% higher rate of suicide, possibly due to a combination of isolation and the economy.

↩︎ The New York Times 19h

With their shaky history of censorship, we can't trust tech companies—who are unaccountable—to solve hate speech.

↩︎ BuzzFeed 19h

Facebook is predicted to decline in teen usage. It's the first time there's been a drop in any age group.

↩︎ Bloomberg 19h

A set of spectacular eclipse photos, both celestial and terrestrial.

↩︎ The Boston Globe 20h

Britain's National Grid warns that homes can't charge a Tesla and run the kettle simultaneously.

↩︎ Quartz 20h

With President Bannon gone and the generals in charge, there's no one to disrupt Afghanistan escalation.

↩︎ The New York Times 20h

Trump's Afghanistan strategy resembles Obama's. But by avoiding details on numbers, he may save political face.

↩︎ The New York Times 20h

"Accidental Wes Anderson" Redditors locate real-world places that fit the director's aesthetic.

↩︎ Reddit 1d

A timeline of US Navy collisions over the past 20 years—there have been three in the past year alone.

↩︎ The New York Times 1d

Researchers find anthropomorphized animals in children's stories are ineffective at teaching generosity.

↩︎ Pacific Standard 1d

Artist Guy Larsen uses the shadows from a crumpled sheet of paper to inspire a set of illustrations. (via This Is Colossal)

1d

“That’s the same density of bacteria you can find in human stool samples. There are probably no other places on Earth with such high bacterial densities.”

Stop disinfecting your kitchen sponge—doing so only makes pathogenic bacteria stronger.

↩︎ The New York Times

1d

"You have no idea how much crazy stuff we kill." Six senior White House officials say why they won't quit.

↩︎ Axios 1d

Despite tech companies' longstanding anti-hate policies, they've been helping hate groups monetize online.

↩︎ ProPublica 1d

The Ebola epidemic three years ago gave Sierra Leone the infrastructure to save lives in last week's mudslides.

↩︎ BuzzFeed 1d