November 25, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Possible nor'easter predicted to ruin Thanksgiving travel plans on the East Coast this Wednesday.
- In the next 50 years the island of Kiribati will sink into the Pacific; its government needs to relocate 103,000 citizens.
- Six-month deal reached to keep the Iranian nuclear program in check, but now "the difficult part starts."
- Nuclear deal not helped by Iran’s ruling cleric, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, calling Israel's leaders "wild animals; you cannot even call them human."
- Scientists begin to take "lucid dreams" seriously, where dreamers claim to be able to use their daytime cognitive faculties.
- Tens of thousands of protestors storm Kiev after Ukraine pulls out of EU deal in favor of closer ties with Russia.
- Portuguese designer creates device that could employ honeybees to detect early stages of cancer on patients' breath.
- The latest in olfactory innovation: the fried chicken-scented candle.
- Prosthetics to replace amputated hands quickly tumble into the uncanny valley.
- NFL quarterbacks only play with highly guarded, specially broken-in footballs.
- "Thinking outside the box" traces back to a 1945 experiment involving a box, candle, matches, and thumb tacks.
- Design, charts, and a whole lot of Hitchcock from the winners of the 2013 Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards.
- Related: Lessons learned from the best and worst posters for movies released this year.
- Linguistic analysis of a Chinese menu that features "problematic (or disastrous)" English translations.
- Dilbert's Scott Adams: "For all practical purposes, the government is torturing my father until he dies."
- Study finds your odds of being murdered are closely linked to people in your social network.
