November 20, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upholds Texas's brutal abortion restrictions.
- Four in five have updated their social media privacy in the past six months.
- Dutch officials pay alcoholics in tobacco and beer to be less disruptive and clean parks.
- Africa is often portrayed as passive to China's aggressive economic presence—it's offensive and untrue.
- Syria's first polio outbreak in 14 years threatens Europe; the virus can spend a year in "silent transmission."
- Gerald Ford biting into the corn husk of a tamale and other awkward presidential photo ops.
- Because the German law enabling the Nazis to seize art is still active, museums can't reclaim their works.
- How big food tries to woo millennials: canning cans, fancy buns, jalapenos.
- In a publicity bid for grand master Magnus Carlsen, Norway challenges the world to a game of chess.
- Reptiles often undergo experiments designed for mammals, making them seem a lot less intelligent than they actually are.
- Chinese researchers find ancient froghoppers fossilized mid-coitus for the past 165 million years.
- Concert pianist and instrument maker creates what da Vinci envisioned 500 years ago: a piano-cello hybrid.
- Whales with horns, bats with red lips, panda ants, and other horrible fauna.
- Forty-eight years after its release, Bob Dylan releases an official music video for "Like a Rolling Stone." It's interactive.
- The world's tallest waterslide to stand at 140 feet in Kansas City; the current tallest stands at 134.5 feet.
- Related: The internet is flooded with lists of “fun facts,” but none of them are about fun itself.
- Michael Cera imagines a text conversation between an unassuming stranger and an oversolicitous Michael Cera.
- C.S. Lewis review The Hobbit.
