November 4, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Very quickly, the matter of disbursing these funds became something else, a proxy fight over how to evaluate grief.
- America shouldn't stop spying, even on allies, but it must do a better job of not getting caught.
- "The 24 Hours Barack Obama Almost Threw His Reelection Away" is a terrific headline, and not at all true.
- Review finds doctors working for the U.S. military violated their ethical codes by torturing suspected terrorists.
- The only jobs in the U.S. where women earn more: "counselors" and "health practitioner support technologist and technicians."
- Journalist challenges hackers to turn his life inside out.
- Their detector was working so well that they would easily see a dark matter particle if and when it decided to drop by.
- Police recover 1,500 modernist pieces from Nazi trove, most likely stolen from Jewish collectors during WWII.
- Sacramento thieves make off with $400,000 worth of walnuts, "the latest in a series of walnut thefts."
- To get the best deal at a bar, order wine, which is only a 300% markup, instead of bottom-shelf, which is inflated by 1,206%.
- Our past three presidents are all former pot smokers, but it's always been time to legalize marijuana.
- Crime scenes in the mid-1900s.
- An illustrated guide to microbes and their most common homes in the New York subway system.
- Births and deaths around the world mapped and depicted in real time.
- Wired space photo of the day: the Wizard Nebula.
