August 2, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Putin has used Snowden's plight...to pose as a human rights defender and to cast the Obama administration as disingenuous.
- A Soviet-era re-enactment bunker, the former home of Pablo Escobar, and other bizarre amusement parks.
- Assad's Instagram provides a whitewashed, propagandized look inside Syria's brutal civil war.
- New meta-analysis attributes large-scale group conflicts to changes in weather.
- Greenland reaches its highest-measured temperature since records began in 1958.
- As ecosystems diminish, each generation's view of how things should be is a lesser vision than that of their predecessors'.
- Military stores halt the sale of 891 periodicals, from X-rated titles to SpongeBob comics to the New York Review of Books.
- Saunders: "As we get older, we come to see how useless it is to be selfish—how illogical, really."
- Shellfish versus cigarettes: Chemicals found in people's systems can reveal their socioeconomic status.
- Modern feminism is more than just "nipples, banknotes, and internet trolls."
- A leopard mink that "smells like R. Kelly's sheets" now "smells like my baseball cleats."
- Marc Tracy on the phenomenon of sad young literary men.
- Nine years ago, a comedian joked about a hamburger with a bun made of doughnuts; today, it exists.
- Crab Nebula, a supernova five times the mass of the Sun, expands at 3 million miles per hour.
- The 38th Parallel Beach, between the barbed wires of North and South Korea, is becoming a top surf destination.
- A Freudian defense of sexting.
