October 2, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Ebola races across Sierra Leone, where the government appears to seriously undercount victims.
- Man diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas visited the ER last week, only to be sent home.
- America's secret weapon against Ebola: Obamacare.
- Grand jury convened over Ferguson investigated for misconduct following tweets of "leakage."
- OutKast, contextually.
- Louisiana, the boot-shaped state, is no longer shaped like a boot.
- Nathaniel Rich on being a New Yorker in New Orleans, a city "being swarmed, occupied, and rendered unrecognizable by New Yorkers."
- Thirteen perspectives on the big Scottish "No," from cautious optimism to calls for federalization.
- Dude reports on life inside Singapore Airlines' $18,400 Suites Class.
- Liberals are fundraising hypocrites.
- See also: Streetcar advocates fetishize the means and overlook the ends; buses are a better bet.
- Users become judge and jury on social media, sharing stories that enrage them—and they love it.
- LGBT advocates convince Facebook to change its "real names" policy.
- Londoners agree to free Wifi in exchange for eternal rights to their eldest child.
- Psychologists say free samples at stores work because customers feel the need to give something in return.
- Payment for low-hanging jobs in Hollywood continues to be "on an unpaid basis."
- Thirtysomething teacher learns how to ride a bike.
- Thirty years after helping originate the Big Bang, Princeton physicist says it was more like a Big Bounce.
- Photographer hunts "sprites," apparitions of light that appear for an instant above thunderheads.
- Pictures of trading floors when the markets go dark.
