October 2, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Fox News: "It's more of a slimdown than a shutdown."
- Veterans break down barricades at WWII Memorial, plan more shutdown disobedience.
- Which government employees are required to take unpaid leave and which ones have to stay, in one tidy graph.
- The reason Congress members get paid—though not their staffers—is the 27th Amendment.
- Collected statements from Congress members who are refusing or donating their pay during the shutdown.
- The government shut down on Nasa's 55th birthday and Yosemite's 123rd.
- Fear of security checkpoints has turned millions of Syrian men into recluses.
- Photographs of cloth sheets outside the homes of Syrian civilians in Aleppo.
- Geoff Dyer considers a photo from "Veiled Aleppo."
- You are not the only one who cries on airplanes; here's why.
- Fable told in 6,000-year-old Proto-Indo-European language linguists believe was a common tongue in Europe, the Middle East, and India.
- The location of the largest volcanic eruption in the past 3,700 years is Lambok Island, Indonesia; the 1257 blast's effects were felt in Europe.
- See also: "The threat posed by volcanoes worldwide is greatly underestimated."
- Ballerinas are desensitized to vertigo because their brains have lesser gray matter density.
- Anxiety sharpens olfactory senses, but only for bad smells.
- Related: Yankee Candle is already selling "Turkey and Stuffing"-scented candles.
- After 15 years of engineering, British seed company grows the "TomTato," a tomato-potato hybrid.
