August 21, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Study finds intelligence officers more prone to irrationality than students when choosing between risky options.
- In the back of an Egyptian police van, 36 protesters suffocated; elsewhere, 25 police officers executed.
- The war between state power and those holding it to account needs constant refreshment.
- British government, not quite understanding the internet, makes the Guardian destroy Snowden-related hard drives with a drill.
- Jeffrey Toobin compares David Miranda to a drug mule, refers to journalism as "magical immunity sauce."
- Citing privacy worries, legal site Groklaw shuts down and founder quits the internet.
- If you don't want your email snooped by the government, Kolab will store your messages in Switzerland.
- Supreme Court justices communicate via memos on ivory paper.
- Open letter to the writers of open letters.
- Documentation of abandoned houses in rural Iceland.
- See also: Photographs of famous New York restaurants without any customers or staff.
- Looters escape unstopped with 1000 rare artifacts from the Malawi Museum in Minya, Egypt
- Two millennia before the Iron Age, Egyptians crafted iron jewelry from meteorite debris.
- Inside Tokyo's Museum of Contemporary art, a gallery for children operates like a haunted house.
- Related: Exciting, strange language to be enjoyed on a poorly translated Japanese cat-costume website.
- Onion obituary writer, paying tribute to Elmore Leonard, lets all hell break loose.
- Tribute paid to Elmore Leonard's ear for language "that even the most indolent and snobbish masters of the mainstream must vigorously covet.”
- "Uncruising" means pitching a tent on the deck of a state ferry, where no decaf or running are allowed.
