August 28, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Sixty years ago today, two white men killed Emmett Till—and the Civil Rights Movement began.
- "They used to say that the little LA (Louisiana) had a direct line to the big LA (Los Angeles)."
- Two extra days in jail is all it takes to turn a petty criminal into a career offender.
- Housing and stock market now means one in 65 UK adults is now a millionaire.
- In another migrant tragedy, boat capsizes off Libyan coast; up to 200 people are believed dead.
- Found on an Austrian highway: an abandoned truck with 71 Syrian refugees who likely died of suffocation.
- On the ground with Europe's migrants.
- After years of protest, Walmart will stop selling assault-style rifles, hopes other retailers will follow suit.
- Donald Trump is Bill Clinton: Both are hypomanic with impulse issues.
- Donald Trump is Henry Ford: Both ran for the GOP nomination on a xenophobic platform.
- Workers mistakenly demolish ancient Spanish tomb, cover their error by pouring a concrete picnic table in its place.
- For about a decade, the world's happiness index has settled in at 71.
- Psychology as a whole faces an uncertain road as a groundbreaking metastudy suggests experimental results can't be reproduced.
- The most common hurdle to knowing the minds of others: We don't realize how egocentric we are.
- The diminishing marginal returns of parental anxiety.
- Forget anxiety, overcaution, or just plain unhappiness. The real problem with parenting is philosophy.
- Glossing over a Bangkok bombing.
- Buzz Aldrin is plotting a 2039 Mars mission to colonize the planet.
- Apple Music's Halsey and the rise of the one-platform star.
- Radiolab's Robert Krulwich launches new blog—the first story starts with a biologist getting naked in a forest.
- A Radiolab waiting to happen: deep-learning program learns to caption New Yorker cartoons—and will enter and try to win.
- "For the first time ever, one billion people used Facebook in a single day."
- "For the most part, the scamming in sugar dating is mutual."
- Competing narratives about closing schools converge at once-great Jamaica High School in Queens, now shuttered.
- "Love is not a game. Tinder is."
