April 22, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Overthrown Egyptian President Morsi gets 20 years for ordering arrest and torture of protesters.
- White House recognizes 1915 Armenian genocide without calling it genocide, despite Obama's pledge.
- In the case of Dr. Oz's "magical" treatments, or Henry Gates selling out to suit Ben Affleck, Hollywood trumps Harvard.
- Modern hobos, many of them millennials, depend on smartphones for tips, community, and pride.
- Oklahoma's seismicity rate has increased 600% in the past five years, "very likely" due to fracking.
- After Louisville converts one-way streets to two-way, accidents go down, crime goes down, property values go up.
- Ten-ton "fatberg"—a wad of fat and wet wipes—removed from West London sewer.
- How to travel "antipodean"—making food that's found on the opposite side of the world.
- Counterfeit drugs routinely make their way into medical supply chains, without any security procedure to address them.
- Mitch McConnell introduces bill to reauthorize Patriot Act's controversial surveillance authority until 2020.
- To help you remember tricky passwords: "embeddable, injectable, and ingestible devices."
- "Cloud chasers" are e-cigarette smokers who compete to blow the biggest cloud of fog.
- Burger King advertises using start-up Tittygram, Russia's "Uber for boobs."
- How to watch pornography responsibly: By paying for it, preferably sending your money to ethical directors.
- Meryl Streep funds screenwriters lab for women writers over 40.
- Chloe Sevigny at 40, two decades after her debut in Kids.
- Study finds that modern parents don't favor a biological child over an adopted one.
- Chimpanzees used for biomedical experiments in New York granted habeas corpus.
