December 16, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Taliban attacks an army-run school in northwestern Pakistan, killing more than 120 children.
- Despite state charges and Muslim skepticism, Sydney attacker professed himself an advocate of peace and a spiritual healer.
- The New Yorker's archival photos of MLK's Selma march.
- Inside the Ferguson movement, young people are leading—but not always allowed to speak.
- Girlfriend of man killed holding toy gun in Walmart was grilled for an hour before police told her he was dead.
- Russian Orthodox Church publishes guide for migrants moving to the big city.
- An 83-year-old woman's disastrous retouching of a century-old fresco has rejuvenated her small Spanish town's local economy.
- Invisible Children, the group behind the KONY 2012 campaign, is planning its exit.
- Six years down the line and with oil prices falling, Keystone XL may no longer make economic sense.
- Antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in the Rio seawaters where the 2016 Olympic sailing and windsurfing events will be held.
- Hornworts...breached the species barrier, trading DNA with an entirely different kind of plant—a fern.
- Inside Lawrence Lessig's campaign finance reform movement.
- Grills—of the sort popularized by Nelly—have been around since the seventh century BCE.
- With no Cold War and uncertain funding, the next era of space exploration will be collaborative, not competitive.
- Denmark claims the North Pole is connected to Greenland, and is thereby Danish property.
- The Elf on the Shelf essentially teaches the child to accept an external form of non-familial surveillance.
- An excerpt from Patton Oswalt's new book on his attempted 1997 performance of Jerry Lewis's The Day the Clown Cried.
