* Emergency-room doctor writes about treating victims of an incendiary-bomb attack in Syria. * Supporters of military intervention argue we should think of U.S. bombing runs in Bosnia in 1995, not Iraq in 2003. * Round-up of Syria-related conspiracy theories. * Every angle considered in case you, too, were
* Nevada launches a website that lets you fantasy-shop for Obamacare—before you do it for real on Oct. 1. * Giving some credence to the Facebook post allegedly from Assad's 11-year-old son: The Assad administration's kids liked it. * A look at the data shows
* Radiocarbon analysis reveals Ancient Egyptian civilization began 1,400 years later than our current estimation. * Female doctors and health professionals are paid 25% less than their male coworkers—25 years ago it was 20%. * The paucity in philosophy of women and people of color is often blamed on [women and
* For the past six years, the DEA has had access to AT&T phone records dating back to 1987. * With new variations emerging daily, synthetic drugs stay ahead of law enforcement, though not the ER. * Serial killing is down and the peer-to-peer economy is booming: Once again,
* Ten months after "civil unrest" began, Britain OK'd sales of nerve gas chemicals to Syria. * Syria's first lady spends while her country burns. * This very lexicon...that found its way into Heaney’s most public poetry is the same one we are speaking regarding
* They may just be the first YouTube videos to start a war. * Paleontologists announce the most complete dinosaur skeleton ever found in British Columbia, expect their dig will produce more. * Researchers say thinking about money problems clouds your faculties, makes it harder to solve other problems. * Why NFL helmets will
* Washington Post obtains the NSA's "black budget" from Snowden, showing precisely how the "espionage empire" spends its money. * Everyone forgets that the "March on Washington" was the "March for Jobs and Freedom." * White House and Congress work to end "
* American and British lawmakers try to slow their countries' increasingly fast march toward a strike on Syria. * From the Onion, "Syria Conflict Intensifies As Bears Enter War." * South Korean paper reports Kim Jong Un's ex-girlfriend has been executed for violating North Korea's
* UN weapons inspectors will leave Syria on Saturday, one day ahead of schedule. * White paper: Military interventions in favor of the rebel faction tend to increase government killings of civilians by about 40%. * Group proposes naming storms after lawmakers who deny climate change. * In South Africa, synthetic drugs with ingredients
* At the front lines of the chemical attacks in Syria. * Another look at the "red line": When chemical weapons are worse than conventional killing. * An internal debate over bombing Syria. * The pro-Assad Syrian Electronic Army takes down the New York Times, attacks Twitter and HuffPo in the
