April 30, 2015
By The Morning News
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- American Psychological Association accused of secretly partnering with the Bush White House to help justify torture post-9/11.
- Hillary Clinton gives first big policy speech—on police and prison reform.
- Multiple eyewitnesses claim Baltimore's Monday riots began when cops wouldn't allow after-school crowd of students to disperse.
- The city hasn’t been 'neglected.' It has been misgoverned into the ground.
- Wale conducts a town hall meeting with Baltimore high school students insulted for being called "thugs."
- History of "thug" goes back to India, specifically the 1350s, derived from ठग, or ṭhag, which means "deceiver" or "thief."
- It is considered that the concept of marital rape, as understood internationally, cannot be suitably applied in the Indian context.
- In the last 25 years, more than two dozen new countries have been recognized—but it's very, very difficult.
- Public health emergency in Indiana is "the first time that an outbreak of HIV has been linked to the injection of prescription drugs."
- Death toll in Nepal nears 6,000, with more than 130,000 homes destroyed.
- White House walks back from possible attempt to end the death penalty.
- Vermont independent senator Bernie Sanders announces presidential run.
- How does Mariah Carey remain a star without big concerts or breakout songs? By saying yes, basically.
- "Accent tagging" is a YouTube linguistics fad that has nothing to do with formal linguistics.
- Men aren't significantly more likely to jump at a chance to have casual sex than women are, as viral videos prove.
- Details on Lulu, the rating app for women, by women, about men.
- Dead bodies glow in the dark thanks to Armillaria mellea, or, "honey fungus."
- Cognitive biases make the "backwards bicycle" very difficult to ride.
