August 7, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Chinese scientists show bird flu has spread among people and is indeed contagious, "although only slightly."
- Small-town police officer commended for insisting to call a child-on-child shooting "negligent," not "accidental."
- Drill music brings fame to young rappers while Chicago becomes the murder capital; each has everything to do with the other.
- Chris Christie's identity campaign.
- Rob Zombie and his wife, "just normal people like anyone else," complain about skate-park noise in their small Connecticut village.
- Mormon missionaries use pick-up basketball to win over converts.
- After living in a Sao Paolo hospital for 45 years, patient to create stop-motion animation series about life with polio.
- Behind every good fact-checker should be a skeptical reader.
- Amazon launches Amazon Art, where customers can purchase artwork by the likes of Monet and Warhol.
- Mid-century photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown.
- In "Digital Cemetery," USB drives resembling tombstones store internet data of the deceased.
- Album-by-album profile of Harry Nilsson.
- London's Capital Children's Choir covers electronic music.
- Man implants headphones in his ears, believing it's the first step in being able to echolocate like a dolphin.
- New research suggests bottlenose dolphins can retain long-term memory of up to 20 years.
- Related: "Dolphin Spends Amazing Vacation Swimming With Stockbroker."
- People recite the longest words of their native tongues—Czech, Danish, Slovenian, Dutch, Hungarian, etc.
- Captivating portraits of Canadians.
- How the world looks when you stuff insects and flowers inside your camera.
