August 23, 2013: Morning
- Assessing the media's trouble with pronouns after Bradley Manning became Chelsea Manning.
- Chelsea Manning's statement on day of sentencing.
- American photographer tells of torture and seven months' imprisonment with jihadi rebel fighters in Syria.
- Photojournalist gang-raped in Mumbai.
- No one is going to put money [into India] until a new government is in place.
- British government orders the Guardian to destroy bourgeois lifestyle articles.
- "Amateur historians" on Reddit add color to black-and-white photos from the 1800s to the 1960s.
- Photographs of William Burroughs's stuff.
- New software can detect photo manipulation by examining inconsistent shadows.
- Mario Batali launches app where users donate meals to at-risk South African schoolchildren by uploading their foodie pics.
- Interactive maps show every political upheaval in the world since 1979, visualizing patterns of how unrest spreads.
- Radioactive isotopes from Fukushima are worse than authorities claim because they are in the water.
- Japanese names intended to sound more international found to be popular yet illegible.
- Almost 60% of tuna sold in the U.S. is not actually tuna; 84% of "white tuna" is actually escolar.
- Scientific American talks to Breaking Bad's chemistry consultant about balancing drama and scientific fact.
- Clock that measures time based on atomic vibrations may be accurate enough to test Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
- Brief history of Stockholm Syndrome.
- Downloads of Canadian composer's 1997 song "Blurred Lines" skyrocket due to shared name with Robin Thicke hit.