January 14, 2016
By The Morning News
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- After two years and 11,000 deaths, the Ebola epidemic in west Africa is now over.
- "If Clinton keeps falling in NH and Iowa polls instead of rising, the establishment may not be able to bail her out."
- Picking an SEO-in-Chief.
- Al Jazeera America failed by misunderstanding the psychology of audience surveys.
- "The great question of this Presidential election is whether the bitter atmosphere is an artifact of politics alone, or whether the country itself is more deeply split."
- CRISPR for the masses: $120 to play God.
- The carcinogen C8 is drawing publicity after DuPont was sued for leaking it into drinking water—it's been in your Teflon all along.
- Concussions took her short-term memory, so she takes pictures.
- Addresses are inefficient and inaccessible for many. Better: Divide the world into three-meter-squares, and use a lot of GPS.
- "For most of history, most people spent a huge amount of time and effort cooking food that wasn't very tasty."
- The GIF's limitations are its artistic advantages.
- A former inmate demonstrates how he learned to paint with crushed Skittles and makeshift brushes.
- Iggy on Bowie: "He went a bit out of his way to bestow some good karma on me."
- More Iggy on Bowie: "He put on a rubber fright mask of an old man, went over to the piano, and it brought out the Hoagy Carmichael in him."
- "Bowie became my blueprint. No matter how far I get, all roads eventually lead back to Bowie."