August 11, 2014
- The Islamic State begins ethnically cleansing Iraq's Yazidi religious minority.
- Primer on the Yazidis, who many Muslims consider devil worshippers.
- The current Ebola outbreak has been traced to a two-year-old boy in Guinea.
- Medical examiner rules last week's death of James Brady—who was shot 33 years ago—was a homicide.
- Israeli arms manufacturers' profits are up.
- Andrew W.K. advises a politically divided family.
- A female reporter's anonymous account of a Very Respected Journalist’s predatory actions toward her in Ukraine.
- To maintain order, popular anonymous social apps turn to an overseas firm that monitors and flags inappropriate posts.
- Researchers at MIT develop tiny hair-like structures that can ignore gravity.
- A deaf musician receives a cochlear implant.
- Silicon Valley start-ups customize algorithms to help consumers find their ideal strain of pot.
- Hawaii has the most homeless people per capita—Mississippi, the least.
- In addition to Hachette, Amazon is now blocking purchases of Disney products.
- Charting culture: where the world's great minds lived and died.
- The world's oldest European eel dies at age 155.