Headlines from September 24, 2013

Death…comes to the door with his own inimitable calling card. One of the final poems of Kofi Awoonor, who died in the Kenyan mall attack.
Protecting his mother and sister during the Nairobi attack, a four-year-old shamed a gunman into sparing them.
Don’t blame America’s mass shootings on movies and video games—violence as entertainment is the norm in Korea, where guns are illegal.
Using historical data models, researchers learn war, not agriculture, is responsible for our complex societies.
Why economist wunderkind Jeffrey Sachs’s plan to eliminate African poverty failed.
On two occasions, air quality investigators evacuated themselves from a Texas family’s home due to high fracking pollution levels.
Disney parks to stop allowing special-needs patrons to skip lines—too many able-bodied visitors are cheating the system.
What CrossFit doesn’t tell you: The regimen is associated with an otherwise-rare form of kidney failure.
Bush: “I see our president criticized for playing golf. I don’t. I think he ought to play golf.”
See also: “Golf Is a Highly Mental Game.” #tmn
Iconic photos recreated in Play-Doh.
A new California law will force internet companies to erase the digital pasts of minors upon request.
Basset hounds running. Editors at BuzzFeed, Flavorpill, and College Humor explain what millennials want.
Ms. Weiss and the store owners realized they opened themselves up to Brooklyn hipster backlash with the classes.
The sounds of Peter Sellers: with Sofia Loren, singing the Beatles, more. #audio
Related: In a Dr. Strangelove interview, Peter Sellers does various English accents. #video
R. Kelly’s grocery list, apparently. #celebrities
Public defender says criminal statutes would be instantly overhauled if middle-class Americans were policed like working-class people.
Cruise ships wreck havoc on Venice’s visitors and vistas.
California passes first law against “revenge porn,” but stigma still blames women for taking nude photos of themselves.
Bird’s-eye images show Hong Kong residents living in closet-sized apartments.
Photographs of the real streets in Atlantic City that inspired the properties in Monopoly.
City landmarks assume the size of their social media commentary in geocoded map of London. #video
Life after death can mean the survival of other people—but how would you behave if you knew the Earth would end one month after your passing?
Anyone born before the last decade of the 20th century can forget about seeing the 22nd century.
Today’s ubiquitous T-shirt was invented in 1904 as the “bachelor undershirt.”
Ermenegildo Zegna produces 30 vicuña suits a year—the most affordable model goes for $46,500.
Tickets to see Pearl Jam in New York City available for more than $5,000.
A single trader lost between $4 million and $7 million placing a flurry of Intrade bets on Mitt Romney.
Errol Morris on his new documentary: “It was show-and-tell, with items Rumsfeld had accumulated.”
Portraits of the women of Afrofuturism. #art
For knowing that Kobe Bryant is a basketball player, I receive an additional thousand dollars.
Detroit Tigers first baseman grabs a fan’s tortilla chip while trying to field a foul ball.
FIFA producer says there aren’t playable female soccer players because “there would need to be new hairstyles.”