August 27, 2015
By The Morning News
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- China is investigating 23 people it says are responsible for the Tianjin explosions.
- To save New Orleans, the Mississippi River mouth must be abandoned, say engineering and design teams.
- New in German vernacular: "Merkeln," which means "to do nothing, make no decisions, issue no statements."
- To anyone who has followed Burning Man's recent history, the idea it is at all anticapitalist is absurd.
- Newer Burning Man arrivals have brought "entitlement camps," where moneyed partygoers eschew the desert's hardships.
- Web entrepreneurs should prioritize sustainable startups over moonshot ideas.
- Ashley Madison's business was fantasy, not affairs—there were far too few real female users for that.
- Find and replace "wicked" with "problematic" in the Old Testament.
- Gujarat faces upheaval as half a million Patels protest India's reservation system, which ties jobs to caste.
- Like Bernie, Jeremy Corbyn put in his time and stuck to his guns; now they're both poised for a career-defining ascent.
- Magazine covers have changed, and mostly for the worse—except National Geographic.
- Vultures are dying as poisons filter through food chain.
- "These primates have developed a culture that makes routine use of a stone-based technology. That means they have entered the Stone Age."
- After years of market stagnation that left mediocre Gogo as the only option, in-flight WiFi is due for an upgrade.
- Without data on Amazon's treatment of working mothers, we only have stories—here's a discouraging one.
- Science of love in the age of big data holds fewer answers than we want to believe.
- Menu-speak translations.
