November 24, 2015
By The Morning News
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- While France seeks a US-Russia coalition against ISIS, the US is training Ukraine to fight Russia.
- "Political correctness keeps us from talking honestly about the refugees."
- Canada's Syrian refugee plan: only women, children, and families. No unaccompanied men.
- Anonymous's latest PsyOps internet offensive: rickrolling ISIS hashtags.
- Why the plan to rickroll ISIS will probably work better than you think.
- Pew: Americans think the government is untrustworthy and doing a great job of protecting us.
- Related: UFO sightings are common in America. So is a lack of political transparency.
- Glimpse from a future census: Dystopian data concerns abound, but the binary will be smashed.
- Two months after Liberia was declared Ebola-free, a boy dies of the disease near Monrovia.
- Scientists have genetically modified a mosquito to resist malaria infection.
- Considering current pledges to cut carbon, the world is still on track to warm by six degrees Fahrenheit.
- Fossil fuels weren't inevitable—in Britain, water power nearly won.
- To improve banking, turn back the clock.
- California drought fines are hitting rural homeowners who've already done all they can to conserve.
- The California Dream is made possible by old water and big water—and the latter is running dry.
- Last year, law enforcement fees and fines took $1B more from citizens than criminals.
- St. Louis public defenders made a choice between increasing caseloads or improving representation.
- The mortician who wants to make death a friendlier, more beautiful experience.
- See also: David Young is the composer behind funeral parlors' most popular soundtracks.
- Books that double as subway tickets.
- Roxane Gay plays competitive Scrabble.