March 3, 2017
By The Morning News
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- Study finds Islamic countries have significantly lower homicide, suicide, and overall lethal violence rates than non-Islamic countries
- When CNN commenters clash over the K.K.K. in 2016, it's both terrifying and deadly serious.
- Map of European place names with the word "Saint" in them.
- The geographic heart of American religiosity isn’t the Southeast, but the middle part of the country.
- Ginsburg digs to the heart of the Texas abortion case: the state claims one standard for women's health and acts on another.
- Election quiz: Guess which 2016 contender is speaking based on the crowd behind them.
- Republicans are more likely to lack empathy, Democrats are more likely to exhibit neuroticism.
- My toe dip into the world of Bernie dating is like an exercise in nausea-induced celibacy.
- Divorces, suicides, lots of therapy—life after the Ashley Madison hack.
- Kanye busted for downloading pirated software.
- China's music market is smaller than that of Austria or Switzerland, mainly due to rampant piracy.
- Nobel economists: Free markets foster “economic enterprises that manipulate or distort our judgment”—e.g., slot machines and alcohol.
- South Korea’s eight-day talkathon becomes world’s longest filibuster.
- Barely a week after it launched a motorbike-taxi service in Bangkok, Uber starts a similar one in India's Bengaluru.
- Iconic taxi motif in Gershwin symphony inspired custom instruments, but it turns out they’re useless—the transcription was wrong.
- Heatmaps and other visualizations applied to two million chess games.
- Good fantasy fiction helps people imagine a better future; too bad that sci-fi often ignores the working class.
- The Morning News 2016 Tournament of Books starts on Monday—get your official Rooster T-shirt now.
- Buy a special ToB Memo Book for $2 and Field Notes will match your $2 and donate $4 to 826 National.
- Enter the Powell's ToB sweepstakes for a chance to win every book in this year's event.
- Related: First shot at new golf course co-designed by Tiger Woods is a hole-in-one, hit by an 11-year-old.
