November 21, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Darren Wilson decision could come today—law enforcement has 48 hours to prep before a public announcement.
- After Obama's aggressive defense of immigrants, GOP must keep Latino electorate in mind—or risk losing the demographic.
- Japan is in a depression, driven primarily by its quickly shrinking population.
- Politicians ponder uses of 90-minute DNA test, which could dent backlogs—or become an instrument of government overreach.
- Sportswriter struggles to understand baseball's relationship with—and his feelings toward—the rapist who still pitches for a AAA team.
- A quick web search for "Alexey Pajitnov" brings up pages of articles and interviews that fixate only on his creation of Tetris.
- Brazilian transpeople rely on Panjuba', a "cryptolect" composed of Yoruba and Portuguese.
- Sound artists explain how they made Interstellar—for example, by picking up an airplane wing with a forklift.
- Related: A Foley artist finishes his horror movie script.
- Part of the Venmo experience is the continuous scroll of your friends' microeconomic activity as told through droll synopsis, inside jokes, and emoji.
- The East Asian practice of wearing surgical masks in public has its precedents throughout the 20th century.
- For a profession locked in a perpetual psychodrama with Facebook, I think journalism underestimates Facebook.
- How our passwords can be keepsakes of our subconscious, or sometimes clues to stories buried deep within.
- See also: An illustrated history of the password's past and future.
- Climate change means the end of wine as we know it—only the biggest growers will have the resources to protect, modify, or relocate.
- Why you shouldn't rake leaves: Your yard's wildlife needs them for a healthy habitat.
