October 21, 2015
- Putin greets Assad in Moscow, to Washington's chagrin.
- Paul Ryan offers Freedom Caucus his terms for GOP speakership, which they have until Friday to accept.
- An episode from Bernie's Burlington days offers an answer to whether Bernie is a radical or a Democrat.
- “The public is more or less OK” with killing five or six innocent people for every drone target.
- Study: Either wealth predicts improved heart surgery outcomes, or heart disease results in lower income.
- "A white person and a black person can go to the same hospital, see the same doctor about the same problem, and one walks out and the other is wheeled out."
- Attending integrated schools improves emotional intelligence and academic performance of white students.
- Apartment buildings are being deluged with Amazon deliveries—some refusing to receive packages altogether.
- Oslo downtown will be car-free by 2020.
- In Norway, "texas" is slang for something that's "totally/absolutely/completely bonkers."
- Man uses 3D printer to assemble a railgun.
- Self-guided community of Cameroonian programmers forge country's first video game.
- Journalists totally failed at fact-checking the source of Lamar Odom's supplement.
- Photojournalism aimed at super-rich foreign Londoners draws offense from Qataris.
- Travel this route across North America to stay in perfect weather all the time.
- It's Back to the Future Part II day, and here's what the movie got (surprisingly) right about today's tech.
- After its glowing Tesla Model S recommendation, Consumer Reports reverses, citing owner complaints.