October 14, 2014
By The Morning News
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- How Ebola spreads: It's droplet-borne, not airborne, so it's not easy—but not especially hard—to get.
- NBC medical correspondent sneaks out of Ebola quarantine to get restaurant takeout in New Jersey.
- Nigeria's successful fight against Ebola is due to both medical infrastructure—and patient psychology.
- Hong Kong police remove barricades and encampments where protestors have demonstrated the past two weeks.
- British Parliament votes to recognize Palestinian statehood—a historic, but largely symbolic motion.
- Pentagon announces "Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap."
- Four months after a SWAT team's flash grenade left their son maimed, a Georgia couple faces over $1 million in medical bills.
- Kim Jong-un's reappearance with a cane is in sharp contrast to his father—who once vanished for more than two months.
- The Berlin Wall created a citywide lab for retrospective studies on workplace equality, television, and politics.
- RFK never fully trusted the Warren Commission's findings—even Warren had doubts.
- Surowiecki: Netflix's content-first pivot is working now, but soon it will mean more competition and less profit.
- The new dating economy...has left many participants feeling like disposable commodities in this most naked form of capitalism.
- Ancient beer, brewed from a wider variety of herbs, had a broad range of effects‚ sometimes hallucinogenic or aphrodisiac.
- A history of Rivers Cuomo trash-talking Weezer.
- Studs Terkel's radio archives at WFMT—which include more than 5,000 interviews—are being digitized.
- The canon of literature for a gay kid was discovered entirely alone...It was smuggling, but also scavenging.
- The @UberFacts Manifesto.
