August 25, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Tensions ease between Koreas—North "regrets" land-mine maimings; South to switch off loudspeakers.
- Every time the stock market loses this much this quickly, a rebound follows.
- A young investor in China: "I have no confidence with regards to the future of our capitalist market."
- "What if we reported on poverty the way we report on the stock market?"
- Google's predictive HR reaches out to prospective candidates based on their web searches.
- Slack's popularity is a symptom of America's demand for a more private internet.
- "Robotics and AI will change the way we work, but it won’t necessarily take away our work."
- Emptied by aging and the recession, recently abandoned, centuries-old Spanish villages hit the market.
- In Tokyo, suburbs are turning to ghost towns as elderly die, the population contracts, and vacant homes simply sit there.
- The confessions of a bibliophilic kleptomaniac.
- Resourceful Detroiters fish from a sinkhole while they wait for the government to repair it.
- Russia's ambivalent relationship to the West, as told in the history of Russian cheese.
- Mark Cohen's close-up photographs of the Rust Belt in the '70s.
- Love and Rockets absorbed disparate influences—comics, punk rock, a Latino childhood—to create a genre-exploding classic.
- Everyone from New Orleans remembers three moments from the last decade: Katrina, the Saints' Super Bowl win, and when Gleason blocked that punt.
- "Cars are going to change a lot in the next few decades."
- Help map America's best/worst pun business names: e.g., A Shoe Grows in Brooklyn.
- An interview with your mom who works a phone-sex line.
- Profiles of phone-sex operators.
