The Morning News

Interview

Black Market Dub and an Alternate History of Popular Music

Turns out that reimagining the music you know and love through a dub filter makes you love it even more.

Theories on why there don't seem to be as many serial killers today, compared to the latter half of the 20th century.

↩︎ Discover 9h

Ambient composer Harold Budd has died at 84 from Covid-19. Here is "First Light," from The Plateaux of Mirror with Brian Eno.

"In...other fields of science, women do not have roles nearly as prominent as they do right now in vaccine development."

↩︎ Bloomberg 9h

An interactive explanation of how camera lenses work.

↩︎ Bartosz Ciechanowski 9h

Of the 9% of US adults who are confident they can tell if a news org does its own reporting, 23% could not do so correctly.

↩︎ Pew Research Center 9h

He quickly began bragging on Snapchat that President Trump had tweeted about his fake account. “My friend was joking, ‘Maybe he’s not close with his sister, and you just brought him and his sister a lot closer,’” he said. “So I kind of felt good about that.”

A Trump supporter impersonated Trump family members on Twitter, and appears to have finally fooled the president as well.

↩︎ The New York Times

"I’m worried students will take on more loans, only to re-enter a compromised labor market." How 2020 could worsen the wealth gap.

↩︎ Vox 12h

Because more than half of Trump's votes came from states he lost, most Trump voters won't be represented in the electoral college.

↩︎ The Washington Post 13h

A sign of what's to come: Anti-vaxxers are spreading lies about the grandmother from the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine program.

↩︎ VICE 13h

The richest 1% produces twice the carbon emissions of the poorest 50%—and must reduce their footprints by a factor of 30.

↩︎ The Washington Post 13h

Heartbreaking letters to Santa show how hard the pandemic has been on some children.

↩︎ CNN 13h

One big problem with a two-dose Covid-19 vaccine is that more than half of people fail to take the second dose of a vaccine.

↩︎ Vox 13h

“It’s just amazing that nurses have gone from the number one trusted profession in the United States to now realizing that there’s this subsection of the population that thinks we’re trying to kill everyone.”

Disinformation is not going away. Blame Facebook, Twitter, Trump, but don’t forget your fellow Americans.

↩︎ BuzzFeed News

↩︎ TMN Newsletters 1d

The latest drone technology, enabling police to track vehicles and people automatically, is raising civil liberties concerns.

↩︎ The New York Times 1d

Hawaii's beaches have become a battleground for sandbags, wealthy surfers, and "unauthorized burritos" (not what you think).

↩︎ ProPublica 1d

It is so important to put a face to the science. When we talk about how coronavirus has disproportionately impacted Black and Brown lives, I oftentimes point to my own story.

A Black physician explains why she joined a vaccine trial after her scientist father died from Covid.

↩︎ Democracy Now!

More than thirty percent of African Americans know an individual that died from Covid-19.

↩︎ Newsweek 1d

Can you figure out which states are missing? We'll be honest, it took us a minute.

↩︎ xkcd 2d