August 31, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Concerned it might break anti-terrorism laws, the British Library passes on Taliban documents.
- French court orders disability allowance for electromagnetism sufferer whose symptoms are blamed on gadgets.
- Seeking parole, jailed New York fortunetellers say the psychic industry is a scam.
- Obama officially changes the name of America's highest peak from McKinley to Denali.
- Democratic candidates will soon gain access to the most powerful voter targeting tool yet created.
- Jeb undermined his cool reputation with an absurd Katrina response: a quarter-billion-dollar cruise ship.
- Students and parents protesting Chicago school closures enter 11th day of hunger strike.
- A veteran documented his slow descent into suicide for an unlistening Facebook audience.
- Meet the writer behind the movement to get vets writing.
- New Tesla scores 103 from Consumer Reports—it's the first model to break the century mark.
- Some amazing technologies never actually monetize, and Twitter might be one of them.
- Oliver Sacks died this weekend; read from a collection of his late-life meditations.
- "Since Google failed me, I wished that I knew an expert I could ask. And that's when I thought of Oliver Sacks."
- Charts depict just how dominating Serena Williams is, as she eyes a calendar-year grand slam at the US Open.
- Maria Sharapova is the world's best-paid female athlete, but Serena Williams has bested her 17 times straight.
- Unbelievable menus from Atlantis, Avalon, and Shangri-La.
- "Everyone else is becoming fungible, sought only for their reliability and low cost."
- Flying moose, cloaked bison, a turtle in the bathroom: the moving-out of a natural history museum.
- Kyoto tourism is booming—enough that the city issued a guide for visitors who don't properly use toilets.
- See also: "The Morning News Guide to Urban Etiquette: New York City."
