November 4, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Germany's move to let intersex babies' gender remain unregistered is a first in Europe—parents aren't forced into deciding.
- Kenya's president launches a website for citizens to report government corruption and bribery directly to him.
- The world's 18 strangest airports.
- U.S. maps depict where seven million displaced Syrians could fit.
- Since 1970, the American middle class has dwindled from 65% of the total population to just 42%.
- Labor Dept. data reveals people's highest level of mathematics achieved in high school correlates to income later in life.
- Before 1883, each U.S. city had its own time standard—why we should retire Daylight Savings and two timezones.
- I recently calculated the probability of reaching the NBA, by race, in every county in the United States.
- If Major League Baseball was just 16 games, it would begin resembling the NFL—i.e., teams would have one starting pitcher.
- Still rollicking from the World Series win, Mike Napoli of the Red Sox roams Boston drunk and shirtless.
- A nine-hour knitting marathon is the latest in Norwegian "slow TV," sedate programming that includes train journeys.
- Samuel L. Jackson (65) is two years younger than Jack Lemmon was when Grumpy Old Men was released.
- After moving into a new studio in a very old building, a tenant realizes the apartment has a dungeon.
- See also: Stories of slammed doors and sad spirits aside, the man who died in your apartment probably isn’t there anymore.
- How the avocado still exists in the wild after surviving its evolutionary failures remains a puzzle.
