October 13, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Hundreds of thousands have evacuated their homes, and Japan watches for flash floods and landslides as typhoon reaches land.
- Authorities don't know why radiation levels in the water around Fukushima increased 10-fold after a weekend of typhoon-related rain.
- In Hong Kong, hundreds of Anti-Occupy protestors descend upon the main protest site, destroying supplies and attacking students.
- Survivors recount the deadly police assault at a college in Iguala, Mexico.
- Judges denied minors' [abortion] petitions for arbitrary, absurd, or personal reasons—such as a failure to discuss her decision with a priest.
- In the midst of an unprecedented rise in the contemporary art market, a 25-year-old painting appreciates 350,000%.
- In three decades, flooding will be a "near-daily occurrence" in nine major East Coast cities.
- First-person account of treating one of the American Ebola patients.
- A 13-year old in Sierra Leone on Ebola's horrors.
- The plan to reboot Ghostbusters with all female leads is the best way to reintroduce the franchise.
- There's no real difference between male and female brains, and studies that say so are outliers.
- Top universities turn out black and Hispanic computer science and computer engineering graduates at twice the rate that leading technology companies hire them.
- MIT study says the Mars One space colonists would starve to death—Mars One's CEO says the study used bad data.
- The NFL has an exclusive contract with Bose, and players wearing Beats could face fines.
- David Sedaris's Reddit AMA.
