November 12, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Whenever Mother Nature wants to send an urgent message to humankind, it sends it via the Philippines.
- Tom Scocca takes apart a psychotherapist's argument against Obamacare and explains how insurance actually works.
- Retailers are clamoring for same-day delivery, and it may be enough to save the U.S. Postal Service.
- Miami's ex-president has regrets.
- Singing too much while your voice is changing can lead to bad habits and injuries, similar to an athlete playing hurt.
- After 72 days of continuous coughing, Julia Ioffe blames all the non-vaccinating parents for her whooping cough.
- Returning from paternity leave, Alexis Madrigal feels great, even though his data tracking shows otherwise.
- Related: When the Fitbit rules the mind, it's time to ignore the beckoning of self-knowledge.
- Speculation is the new spoiler—even floating a theory can change the way you watch and spoil the viewing experience.
- See also: From 2008, how spoilers—including joke spoilers, which still plant a thought—ruin everything.
- The chocolate industry's slow consolidation is devastating West African farmers and independent cocoa processors.
- New Orleans and San Antonio companies battle over the "Who Dat" trademark—the term dates back to the 1700s.
- Smartphones are changing the way teenagers shop, shoving malls into the periphery.
- Apps alone (without services) probably generate more than four times the revenues of digital music.
- The private yet public spaces of security guards in Latvia.
- More than just calamari: a roundup of the world's most fascinating squids.
