July 28, 2011: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Human rights group says Syrian protestors are being disappeared at a rate of one every hour.
- When the West outsources surrogacy to India, surrogates face personal loss, social ire.
- Foreign Policy asks experts to look at history and decide: Is this the worst Congress ever?
- Little, Brown stirs controversy, publicity by staying mum on Untitled by Anonymous.
- Kickstarter, iPhone spawn "cargo cults"--imitators who never grasp the reasons the thing exists.
- Creem revival stalls, as the editor falls out with the publisher, who hasn't secured rights to the title.
- Wishful land-speed record breakers blame nearby potash mine for slushing the Bonneville Salt Flats.
- Some claim racism fuels New York nightclubs' dress code enforcement, but it's actually B&Tism.
- Scientists defend porn and its alleged ability to discourage violence.
- Watching Marlon, Greg, Kevin, and other elephants at Namibia's Etosha National Park.
- MIT researchers develop furry seals, smart trashcans to prepare world for an ever-aging population.
- A history of theories trying to decipher the reason for our freakishly big brains.
