July 18, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Across the border from McAllen, Texas, Mexican authorities rescue 81 kidnapped migrants; last month, 165 were freed in a similar case.
- Huong is among millions of Vietnamese who hold an estimated 300 tons to 400 tons of bullion...valued at as much as $19 billion at domestic prices.
- An elastic, conductive material crafted from self-organizing gold nanoparticles could be used to create brain or heart implants.
- Astronomers think they've found the origin of gold on Earth: two dead neutron stars that collided long ago.
- Paleontologists discover a new dinosaur species, Nasutoceratops, which lived on a beachfront in what's now southern Utah.
- A view of London from the waves of the Thames.
- Google Maps sinks the island of Jura, Scotland, into the Atlantic.
- PayPal accidentally deposits $92 quadrillion into a user's account.
- Broughton walked into Club 90 South, sat behind the bar at the only available seat, and became the default South Pole bartender.
- Clay Risen on New York's smaller-than-microbrews.
- Americans have doubled their air-conditioning usage over the past 20 years—without it, we'd be unproductive in an uninhabitable land.
- Having already won the pan-and-scan vs. widescreen battles, cinephiles are flummoxed by Netflix's cropping practices.
- Related: Screenshots show how Netflix crops your favorite movies.
- In Portugal, protestor leads popular anti-austerity demonstrations by singing opera.
- How, then, are we to obtain, given our meager human life spans, a godly cognizance of every last, lost Victorian novel?
- The Malcom Gladwell Book Generator.
