October 21, 2013: Morning
- Violin believed to have been played by the Titanic's bandmaster as the ship sank sells at auction for £900,000.
- A growing number of young Japanese adults are uninterested in sex—their parents worry about "celibacy syndrome."
- In the awful Virginia gubernatorial race, the Richmond Times-Dispatch endorses "none of the above."
- New York judge rules unpaid interns aren't employees—so they aren't protected from sexual harassment.
- MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston will collaborate with IBM's Watson to crunch cancer data in search of treatments.
- In 2007, Cheney had the wireless function on his defibrillator implant disabled to thwart terrorist hackers.
- Related: 70 days after taking office, Cheney drafted a resignation letter in case his heart condition rendered him incapacitated.
- To make ends meet Americans are selling their hair, milk, and eggs.
- Researchers find nearly 75% of the breast milk sold through a website is highly contaminated.
- God reveals He occasionally eats humans.
- There will be a big earthquake, and few of us will have made even the most elementary preparations.
- A legitimate first-world problem: Taking multivitamins or high-dose antioxidants can shorten your life.
- Tick common to chimpanzees transfers to an epidemiologist's nostril, where it was discovered and studied.
- Reflections on the end of America.
- Babies are starting to smile earlier than expected—as young as one month old.