August 25, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Excellent Nathan Thrall analysis of how Israel and Hamas reached their current, undesired war.
- Venezuela soon to begin fingerprinting customers at grocery stores.
- Four men develop a nail polish to detect date-rape drugs.
- Catalog of weapons used against Ferguson protestors.
- Black Ferguson experiences post-Michael Brown political awakening.
- Since 1970, the number of black elected officials in the United States has increased nearly tenfold.
- List of "facts" that everyone knows, that actually are false.
- Rosecrans Baldwin trains with tennis great Mats Wilander for a shot at the US Open—if he can beat a top 15-year-old.
- Reaching for a towel, even after only playing one point, has become tennis's security blanket.
- See also: "In tennis, love means nothing."
- Man emerges from nearly 30 years in the woods and calls Thoreau a "dilletante."
- Of the 200 Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, most are still missing.
- Boko Haram now kidnapping dozens of boys and men to force them to fight as soldiers.
- The language Belarusian, after years of declining interest, is “cool” again in Belarus.
- I’ve found that braising cans change the flavors and textures within, but unpredictably so.
- Short movie on texting and the internet as they've been portrayed in film.
- Semi-scholarly, illustrated tribute to Ralph Wiggum.
