August 7, 2014
- Minority Yazidi Iraqis are dying of thirst, stranded on a mountaintop.
- Related: the amount of ISIS-controlled land in Iraq and Syria is now bigger than England.
- Profile of Moner Mohammad Abusalha, first American suicide bomber in Syria.
- Over two million people still pay monthly for access to AOL.
- The average female primary care physician would have made more money over the course of her career had she been a physician's assistant.
- China to construct a "Chinese Christian theology" suitable for its approximately 30 million Protestants.
- Animated musical history of the land known as Israel/Palestine/Canaan/the Levant.
- Weird Al stays weirdly popular by making weird songs mundane.
- America can maintain its global edge on ingenuity as long as it doesn't get hung up on whiteness.
- Whites are not under attack by Democrats; Republicans like Brooks are simply stoking racial fears to hide their history of racially regressive policies.
- While we're at it: Why do so many people pretend to be Native American?
- Wikimedia refuses to remove monkey's selfie at behest of the photographer whose camera it hijacked.
- Bored runner starts using tracking apps to draw penises, corgis, and Space Invaders around San Francisco.
- Listening to "We Will Rock You" may actually make you more likely to win.
- Scientists extract sound from silent films by translating vibrations.
- New novel available from Penguin Books comprised entirely of tweets from people who posted they were working on their novels.
- Novelist Helen DeWitt writes—with a baseball bat next to her bed—about being stalked by her neighbor.