August 4, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Republican candidates gather in New Hampshire without Trump and make bombastic statements of their own.
- Stupidity in politics is old, going back to "bunkum" (1820s) and earlier; at least today we don't have duels.
- Nearly 50,000 people have given to Ben Carson's campaign, more than twice those who've given to Clinton.
- See also: "How I Infiltrated a White Pride Facebook Group and Turned It into 'LGBT Southerners for Michelle Obama.'"
- If Dylann Roof is sentenced to death, he'll be in the rarest of company: whites executed for killing blacks.
- The gig economy separates workers from one another; lacking a shared fate makes it hard for them to unite.
- When offices crank up air conditioning in summer, they use a decades-old formula determined by the metabolic rates of men.
- New London museum dedicated to Jack the Ripper billed itself as a women’s history museum when applying for planning approval.
- Critics rip Chinese winter Olympics anthem for its uncanny resemblance to "Let it Go" from Frozen.
- Frisbee fans applaud Ultimate's inclusion in the Olympics, but IOC oversight could kill the game's independent spirit.
- FDA approves epilepsy medicine Spritam, the first 3D-printed product approved for use inside the human body.
- Email spam falls to a 10-year low, unlikely to reach levels as in 2008, when spam was 90% of emails.
- Memorial for Sports Phone (976-1313), a New York institution that provided scores for rabid fans.
- ABCNews 20/20 special from 1981 on the new sound of rap music.
- Surf rock legend remains on the road in order to pay his medical bills.
- Mark Zuckerberg quits Facebook, leaving it in shambles—can they raise enough data to pay their debts?
- Related: "How Pinterest simplified, compartmentalised and scattered the web."
