October 22, 2013: Morning
- Drone strikes do more than end civilian life—they destroy it by grounding local troops and fostering corruption.
- If the Obama administration has its way there won't be an end to the counterterrorism war in Afghanistan for years to come.
- Northern China is awash with smog; small particle pollution is 40 times higher than international safety standards.
- North Korean propaganda artists paint an unreal Beijing.
- Fact check: Scientists studying rats didn't find that Oreos were more addictive than cocaine.
- Researchers need to be reminded...of Feynman's observation that "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself."
- Researchers uncover patterns of human migration by seeing where the herpes went.
- A new mobile app could scour social data to recommend where to eat to avoid food poisoning.
- Cooking vegetables won't always degrade vitamins—depends on the vegetable, the vitamin, and how you cook it.
- The first page of Morrissey's autobiography sung in the style of Morrissey.
- India's once-robust Chinese population is dwindling; the effects are visible in Calcutta's Chinatown.
- Fukushima fishermen's lives once again sent into turmoil after discovery of radioactive waste pouring into the ocean.
- Frustrated by government obstacles, a secessionist movement is growing within Silicon Valley's tech elite.
- New York Public Library asks for help deciphering old maps for use in "research, teaching, and civic hacking."
- New fiction from Haruki Murakami: "Samsa in Love."
- Tim Burton and Michael Keaton are apparently on board for a Beetlejuice sequel.