Headlines from October 27, 2015

If last night’s debt ceiling deal happens, it’s good for Obama’s legacy, Ryan’s cotillion, and Boehner’s barn.
South Carolina campus cop tosses desk-bound student to the floor.
A lack of sleep can undermine all areas of health—and blacks are five times more likely to be short of sleep.
Black men are leaving teaching. Their colleagues don’t see them as peers.
US flouts provocation warnings, sails warship near China’s artificial islands in disputed waters.
China’s first attempt at a domestically built cruise liner will be ambitious—twice the size of the Titanic, in fact.
A cracker from a Titanic lifeboat’s survival kit sells at auction for $23,000.
Indigenous communities in Arctic north hope solar power will unshackle them from reliance on Canadian diesel.
Climate change report says areas of the Persian Gulf could be “intolerable to humans” by the end of the century.
Methane plumes in the Pacific near Washington are either really bad or relatively unimportant.
As a teenager, I would go after people with rocks, and bricks, and baseball bats, and hammers. Don’t call Ben Carson “low energy.”
Failed “Uber for home cleaning” regrets not engaging with national discussion on independent contracting in sharing economy.
Google’s AI edge is helping its ranking algorithm interpret never-before-seen queries.
SXSW capitulates to Gamergate threats and cancels two of its 2016 panels.
When the Blair Witch Project website launched—when few understood the internet—it convinced many the movie was real.
Resharpen your skills: How to carve a pumpkin.
North Carolina Children’s Hospital names wing after special sponsor: Krispy Kreme.
The egg subsumes the sperm. Politics of sex-ed textbooks deconstructed at sentence level.
From script to storyboard, this is how The Simpsons is made.