August 8, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Research around H5N1 was cloaked in secrecy, now scientists propose more transparent—and more dangerous—H7N9 studies.
- Mention a foreigner under surveillance in an email or text and the NSA is going to be tracking you.
- Gupta: "Why I changed my mind on weed."
- As e-cigarettes catch on, smokers—however they classify themselves—enjoy life without stigma.
- A smoker costs a private employer in the United States an extra $5,816 per year compared with a nonsmoker.
- The more we we are exposed something—such as a minor artwork—the more we like it.
- During WWII, French POWs filmed life inside the camp with a camera hidden in a dictionary.
- Sam Stephenson offers a behind-the-scenes look at the photographers who contributed to his "Bull City Summer" project.
- See also: Photos from the "Bull City Summer" project.
- David Epstein explains why it takes more than the right genes or 10,000 hours to become an elite athlete.
- Would any team, naming itself today, choose "Redskins" or adopt the team's Indian-head logo?
- Catching up with mothers featured in an article about "opting out" of the workforce, 10 years later.
- From 1973, "The President Addresses the Nation" by Philip Roth.
- As a sinkhole threatens to swallow a town, residents blame the petroleum company that's blaming nature.
- Wikipedia's Terminal Event Management Policy decides what happens to the content at the end of the world.
- See also: Experts discuss ways to get your precious data off the planet—no matter what, nothing is lost.
