August 5, 2015
By The Morning News
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- China outsources to South Carolina, where wages are offset by subsidized cotton, tax breaks, and cheaper energy.
- The biggest corporate donors are supporting two candidates: Bush and Clinton.
- Jeb's latest "misspeak" about overfunding for women's health suggests a troubling problem with debates looming.
- Nine essential moments from Jon Stewart's The Daily Show, with guests and writers explaining why.
- Twenty-one different music videos for a single song in a mesmerizing montage.
- Eighty-seven years of natural sound recordings released in massive digital library.
- See also: Live map of living hedgehogs, dead hedgehogs, and hedgehog holes.
- Jack Handey: The worst part of the apocalypse will be the success of Cannibalism Today.
- Transfusions of "young blood" may help the elderly heal like teenagers.
- Yelp reviews of newborn babies.
- Metropolitan Opera to quit using blackface in productions of Othello.
- DC's pro tennis tournament, currently being played, started because Arthur Ashe wanted to see black faces watching tennis.
- New review finds the most scientifically valid way to pick optimal running shoes: the most comfortable ones.
- Drone drops a package containing heroin, marijuana, and tobacco into an Ohio prison yard.
- Patent application suggests Facebook wants lenders to be able to discriminate against borrowers based on their social networks.
- Tyler Cowen picks people who deserve to be raised in status.
- What concrete changes would I make in schools? We should have way more classes which are way shorter.
