August 3, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Obama to unveil tough environmental regulations, attempting to stake out an uncompromising position.
- Monday's Clean Power Plan announcement is one step, not a giant leap, for climate action.
- In the new age of espionage, old-style human spying proves useful against advanced cryptography.
- Profile of Darren Wilson, who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson and now can't find a job.
- Zimbabwe accuses additional American doctor of killing a lion illegally this year.
- Britain didn't fight the second world war, the British empire did.
- Robot decapitated in Philadelphia after successful hitchhiking across Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands.
- See also: Quirky smartphones of China.
- Year of the Woman, a "lost" documentary of second-wave feminism at its political peak, returns after 42 years.
- William Randolph Hearst's granddaughter gets Cosmo covered up at RiteAid, Hannaford, and Food Lion.
- India’s Supreme Court repeatedly—and frighteningly—cites “collective conscience” to determine when to confirm death sentences.
- Some people feel music so strongly the sensations are called "skin orgasms," which may explain why many find shiver-inducing songs addictive.
- Notes toward Alexander Chee's unfolding essay collection.
- See also: “Annie Dillard and The Writing Life,” notes on Chee's time studying with Annie Dillard.
- Final scene in the David Foster Wallace movie shows him dancing in a church—a lie he told journalists to cover his 12-step programs.
- Really impossible: theorizing Tom Cruise.
