March 11, 2016
By The Morning News
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- Merkel’s refugee policies to be tested this weekend in Germany's regional elections.
- Carson endorses Trump, calling him a "leader with an outsider's perspective."
- White Trump supporter who punched a black protester in North Carolina: "Next time, we might have to kill him."
- For further explanation of Trump’s rise, look to Michael Savage and right-wing talk radio.
- NASCAR chief stunned by backlash after endorsing Trump.
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) documents show Obama’s DOJ has worked to stifle reform of the FOIA in Congress.
- Western powers discuss divvying Syria.
- Bill seeks to eliminate daylight saving time in California (on Sunday at 2am ET, clocks go forward by an hour).
- People try preparing recipes from the other side of the planet of where they're standing.
- Jelani Cobb: Black Lives Matter may never have more influence than it has now.
- George Martin knew that amidst all the C and G chords, personality and innovation would eventually break through and count most.
- Everything you need to know about the Go contest that a human (Lee Sedol) is about to lose to a machine (AlphaGo).
- See also: List of games that robots still can’t win.
- Today in the Tournament of Books, the avant-garde (Ban en Banlieue) meets the more conventional (The Turner House).
- Official T-shirt for the ToB, from book designer Janet Hansen, available for four more days.
- Amazon reporter walks through the company's first bookstore.
- See also: Report from the world’s first “cyborg fair.”
- Wall Street supposedly gripped by "juniorization," where senior staff are replaced with younger talent.
- Philanthropists, athletes, and celebrities "flash fund" more than $14 million worth of DonorsChoose.org projects.
- "Witzelsucht" is the condition where a person can't stop making jokes, and also doesn't find anyone else funny.
- Not safe for work: "Comedians Sitting on Vibrators Getting Coffee."
