November 1, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Syria wants to turn its chemical weapons factories into civilian chemical facilities, alarming inspectors.
- Columnist detained in Saudi Arabia for writing about women drivers.
- Greenwald on leaving The Guardian: "Reporting the NSA story has never been easy."
- The Pacific Ocean has warmed 15 times faster in the last 60 years than at any time in the previous 10,000.
- Bizarre, beautiful, overlooked photographs of luminescent creepy crawlies.
- Scientists find that dogs' tails wag right when happy, left when upset, and that other dogs react to these movements.
- Researchers believe they've cracked the Mpemba effect, or, why hot water freezes faster than cold water.
- Calculating interest rates may be hard when investors can "pay starship captains to carry them forward in time, to reap the benefits of centuries of accumulated interest."
- Properties facing cemeteries sell for 13% more than properties that don't.
- The semi-mythical cow tunnel or cow tunnels are the subterranean part of Manhattan’s lost meat infrastructure, built to ease urban cow-jams at a particular historical moment.
- Small Chicago take-out restaurant dresses up as Michelin 3-star Alinea for Halloween.
- The sports director of a Boise newscast delivered his full Halloween segment as Ron Burgundy.
- American children's waning interest in baseball is tied to their fathers' lack of involvement in teaching the game.
- In the late 1870s, baseball was at risk of dying out before it even got started, then a German saloonkeeper got involved.
- Stanley Crouch releases the first volume of his Charlie Parker biography, 30 years in the making.
- David Bowie's latest video was filmed in his office corridor last weekend and cost $12.99 to produce.
