August 14, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Drones that can crawl inside sewer pipes could be used to provide emergency aid to disaster victims.
- Columbine principal retires after honoring pledge to work until kindergardeners at the time of the 1999 tragedy graduated high school.
- Police, armed burglars endure five-hour standoff after the latter failed to steal quiche from a Northumberland cafe.
- In Venezuela, where human hair sells for $500 on the black market, thieves called "piranhas" attack women, chop off ponytails.
- In a maximum security prison in Brazil, male inmates knit and crochet designer apparel.
- See also: Eerie, surrealistic portraits of people knitting copiously.
- When a mosquito bites, its mouthparts probe the victim's flesh in search of blood vessels.
- The overall goal is to...collect this beneficial gene product in its protein form in the milk the female rabbits produce.
- Scientists successfully extract enough electricity from human urine to partially charge a cell phone.
- Simulated 120-day mission to Mars inside a volcano suggests astronauts can cook jambalaya and vegetarian sushi in space.
- In 1869, the owner of Scientific American almost succeeded in building a New York subway operated by pressurized fans.
- You are literally on the wrong side of history if you try to fight this.
- See also: Non-Expert Eric Feezell explains the use and misuse of "begs the question."
- Charlatans drummer Jon Brookes dies, age 44.
- The woods in Trento, Italy, are scattered with storybook-like figures made from natural objects found in the Sella Valley.
- Foreign Policy's annual list of the 100 best Twitter accounts to follow for conversations about global events.
