August 6, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- After al Qaeda threat leads to dozens of U.S. embassies being closed, officials explain fears of liquid bombs and "Frankenbombers."
- New research finds deep cooperation between Hollywood studio bosses and Nazi officials.
- I feel alienated by [Don Lemon's] comments because they translate into a form of media violence that black men know all too well.
- Travel company offers protest tourism in Cairo.
- In The Newsroom, Africa is "a huge, complicated continent to be portrayed as stereotypically as possible."
- Jeff Bezos acquiring the Washington Post is just the start of tech companies acquiring content companies for cheap.
- "Amazon Founder Says He Clicked on Washington Post by Mistake."
- People play the lottery because it's a game "where reason and logic are rendered obsolete, and hope and dreams are on sale."
- From 1903, a picture manual on how to combat acne and wrinkles with face-contortion exercises.
- Men photographed in the poses and settings they find most masculine.
- "Neuromorphic" engineers try to design computers that have some—preferably all—of three characteristics that brains have and computers do not.
- Web comic author explains his 3,099-panel story set 11,000 years in the future.
- Japanese super toilets can be hacked, meaning someone else can control your deodorizing capabilities, automatic seat, and two nozzle bidet spray.
- New research suggests Galileo's optics knowledge was far more advanced than he let on.
- Logistics behind Homer's "wine-dark sea."
