November 13, 2014
By The Morning News
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- House and Senate to vote on Keystone XL pipeline, with pols on both sides lining up to endorse it.
- The Valerie Jarrett profile everyone in DC is reading.
- Doctors Without Borders to host experimental Ebola treatments in West Africa.
- China fails to trumpet the big climate change deal, possibly because it can clean the air for foreign dignitaries, but not its people.
- US companies now keep more money overseas—$2 trillion—than they hold domestically.
- Round-up of advice from Western, English-speaking Islamic State militants to other would-be jihadists.
- Police killed 461 felony suspects in the past year, the highest number in two decades.
- Arms makers now developing weapons that "rely on artificial intelligence, not human instruction, to decide what to target and whom to kill."
- LeBron tells ESPN that his children are only allowed to play basketball, baseball, and soccer—no football.
- Japanese "Muscle Suit," enabling wearers to pick things up with a third of the effort, now on sale for $5,190.
- Brief histories of failed technologies, from the longbow to the decorative helmet.
- Google acquires an airport with its own private golf course.
- Life as a black woman technologist at Google.
- See also: "Black Girls Don't Read Sylvia Plath."
- Abused alone as children, women join to face the religious Louisiana girls' school that failed them.
- German city of Dortmund urged to pursue gender equality among its traffic lights.
- Controversial, prolific Wikipedia sex illustrator retires with anonymity intact, legacy in question.
- Round-up of the ongoing, still continuing, frequently thrilling and wacky captioned adventures of George Washington.
