October 16, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- A brief history of lust intercepting foreign policy.
- The journey to Mecca is not what it was 100 years ago; hotels dot the landscape, one so grand it towers over the Kaaba.
- Snorkeler finds carcass of 18-foot-long oarfish, a creature that normally roams 3,000 feet under the ocean surface.
- Overfishing by humans has turned the food chain upside down, and it's jellyfish that are floating to the top.
- Sea creatures—e.g., sea pigs, wolf-bird whales—on pre-17th century maps reflect shifting perceptions of the sea.
- Archaeological dig finds the English were eating frogs' legs 8,000 years before the French.
- In a highly improbable find, a 46-million-year-old mosquito fossil with blood in its abdomen is discovered in Montana.
- Study measuring handprints on cave paintings suggests most neolithic artwork was drawn by women.
- In the Micronesian island of Yap, limestone discs can be used as currency.
- UK bureau suspects one in five urban marriages are shams.
- Report: More than five million babies have now been born through assisted reproductive technologies.
- Neil Gaiman: "There is no such a thing as a bad book for children."
- See also: Young readers from across the globe talk about their latest read.
- He's Dating Who?!? and other popular books if they had clickbait titles.
- Bike sculptures hover over a French canal, casting dramatic shadows in the water.
- Hans Riegel, Haribo founder and inventor of the gummy bear, dies at 90.
