December 4, 2012: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen crucifies, amputates, and tortures, and also provides public services.
- Bahrain's embrace of a Kardashian is part of a larger effort to shift news coverage away from protest marches.
- Facebook's Chris Hughes, now owner-editor of the New Republic, represents "a savior from the future for the institutions of the past."
- First tweet from the Pope expected on Dec. 12; for now, the Pope follows no one.
- Jazz historian picks 100 best albums from the 817 he listened to in 2012.
- Photographs and newspaper quotes after a 1925 fire at Madame Tussauds wax museum in London.
- Google Maps' Street View function transformed into abstract paintings.
- See also: "Planned Cities Seen From Space."
- New method to delay elimination of Arctic sea ice: Reroute planes to circumnavigate the Arctic Circle.
- American Academy of Pediatrics recommends giving girls prescriptions for emergency contraception, just in case.
- New Dutch condom can be used with one hand, thanks to "wings."
- Society may not agree, but "there’s no real proof that low levels of drinking are harmful to a fetus."
- Starting the Panthers-Chiefs game with silence was a nice gesture; considering the NFL's domestic-abuse problem, it was an empty one.
- Day in the life of an elevator optimizer.
- Wedding photographer tracks down former clients to see how their marriages are going.
- What it looks like inside Amazon's warehouses.
- In case you missed it: "My brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-packing time inside the online-shipping machine."
- See also: Borders was once a glorious workplace.
