July 30, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Life after whistleblowing.
- Our nation, divided in its Amazon reviews of Reza Aslan's Zealot: more than 100 five-star and one-star ratings.
- See also: One-star Amazon reviews of the best modern novels.
- Paris Chamber of Commerce launches "Do You Speak Touriste?" program to help French locals be more polite to visitors.
- France's language cops strike "le binge drinking" from the lexicon and replace it with beuverie express.
- Archaeologists studying Incan mummies discover children were fed drugs and alcohol before being sacrificed.
- After 21 years, the heirs to India's Maharaja of Faridkot inherit billions; palace staff and lawyers found guilty of forging his will.
- Hyperrealistic black-and-white pencil sketches of people performing morning rituals, i.e. shaving or plucking eyebrows.
- Looped video in vines and gifs is a punishing way to watch tragedy unfold, though the Zapruder film is practically a gif.
- For the people who make the games you play, life online means becoming a target for vicious critics.
- Barnaby Jack, the hacker who exposed vulnerabilities in ATMs and pacemakers, dies at 36.
- Smart homes, hacked.
- The components of a space suit, X-rayed.
- The Earth Harp: "The strings would run out over the audience and attach into the balcony of the theater or the architecture itself."
- Scientists report the Gulf of Mexico's oxygen-deprived "dead zone" is larger than average, but not the biggest-ever, as predicted.
- I figure my beautiful words deserve to nestle their heads 'pon something with a precipitously high thread count, so.
