August 28, 2013: Morning
- Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson credited for encouraging King to speak about his dream.
- Related: Jackson sings "Closer Walk With Thee" at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1970.
- California rim fire that threatens to disrupt Yosemite and San Francisco water supply can be seen from outer space.
- In Thailand, "yaba"—a potent caffeine-meth mix—is being disguised as candy and sold on Facebook.
- With simplified HIV care and lower treatment costs, South Africa is beginning to combat AIDS successfully.
- Abandoned art museums stifle cultural life in Belgrade.
- Scientists claim to have discovered new element that would classify as atom 115 on the periodic table.
- Researchers send a brain signal from one human to control another's hand over the internet.
- Impressionistic tablet paintings juxtapose bucolic Swedish landscapes with science fiction motifs.
- Deep-sea squid with "wimpy" arms attract prey because their wriggling generates bioluminescent light.
- "Omnishambles," "twerk," "internet of things," and other new entries to the Oxford Dictionary database.
- Related: In the internet of actual things, every chair in the world will tell you to stop slouching.
- South Korea's latest plastic surgery trend is cutting the corners of the mouth to create a perma-smile.
- The ubiquity of the verb "to step out" in tabloids.
- From 1987, excerpts from satirical Jean-Paul Sartre cookbook that vows to "put to rest all notions of flavor forever.''
- Related: Interactive map compares food based on its flavor compounds.