August 10, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Maura Johnston and Billy Joel close down the Nassau Coliseum.
- "If you want to know why executive pay is skyrocketing...it's because of this change in the tax code."
- Researchers are divided over whether there's a single property that links all languages.
- Why jails have more suicides than prisons.
- "Marketing and sport have never as strangely intertwined as they are under the umbrella of Major League Soccer."
- "Research predicts new HIV infections will finally be eliminated by 2030"—but only with testing.
- The new Ebola vaccine happened because people collaborated, squeezing 10 years into 12 months.
- Nineteenth-century matrimony maps charted the journey from singlehood to misery.
- "Sharks have such a tolerance for humans. And we have no tolerance for them."
- Ferguson police exchange fire with a man near demonstration marking a year since Michael Brown's death.
- St. Louis remains starkly segregated, despite tools like housing vouchers and anti-discrimination legislation.
- Trump's affinity for improv costs him an adviser, and the party's approval.
- Scientists are too scared about their safety and careers to speak out about the Planned Parenthood videos.
- Coca-Cola funds studies that show obesity is best addressed through exercise, not diet.
- Irish officials refused to extradite alleged criminal to US, citing supermax prisons as "cruel and unusual punishment."
- Physical effects of radiation exposure are well documented, but the psychological consequences go overlooked.
- Cannabis residue found in tobacco pipes unearthed from Shakespeare's garden.
- It's so hot out right now, it feels cold.
- The deadliest events in history, ranked by deaths per day.
- To meet the newfound demand for vinyl records, Nashville's United Record Pressing is expanding.
- Rediscovering vinyl, sonic memories, and the joy of sitting down to do one single thing.
