October 23, 2014
- Shooter in Ottawa kills a soldier in what the PM calls a "terrorist" act—the suspect was recently designated a "high-risk traveler."
- Canada's CBC News covered the shootings in a way US news no longer can: with respect and care for the facts.
- Mexican attorney general thinks Iguala's mayor and his wife were behind the events that led to the murder of 43 students.
- McDonald’s profits dropped 30% last quarter, which executives chalk up to the company being "misunderstood."
- Child poverty reaches 20-year high in US—five are killed daily by guns; one dies every seven hours from abuse or neglect.
- On evil: "Denying the shared humanity of others seems to be a universal human trait."
- Felicia Day finds another Gamergate casualty: the camaraderie that sheltered gamers from a world that didn't understand.
- Gaming is the least welcoming online space for women, according to a new Pew study.
- Latinos will not easily be assimilated into US whiteness, despite growing population and high intermarriage rates.
- "Douchebag" doesn't apply only to white heterosexist males: Pitbull and Pharrell are also prime examples of douchiness.
- Kenny G defends Hong Kong protest selfie, says he was walking around as a tourist.
- Detroit finds a scapegoat in its tax-delinquent residents—142,000 of whom the city could evict over the next year.
- What if age is nothing but a mindset?
- Neuroscience community divided on brain-training games, which some call hokum and worry will undermine real science.
- What Google is working on may instead result in the automotive equivalent of the Apple Newton.