October 24, 2014
By The Morning News
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- New York City has an Ebola patient; officials tracing every contact he made, including while bowling in Williamsburg.
- Health workers in Texas use Tabasco during training for its tingling properties, to say if they've been contaminated.
- Confessions of an Ebola thrillist.
- Some US hospitals considering whether to withhold care from Ebola patients.
- UN says water is a human right in Detroit—but they don't have to deal with the complications of delivering it to households.
- US workers gave up $50 billion in time-off benefits last year, and took less vacation than in the past four decades.
- Dispatch from Belgrade’s first gay pride parade in four years.
- Campaign ad for a white wannabe Massachusetts governor uses a Morgan Freeman impersonator and footage of Nelson Mandela.
- "Previously unthinkable," eight different shows in London right now feature black artists and photographers.
- Uber provides a workaround for black customers who've been stuck dealing with rude and racist cab drivers.
- Per Newsweek, Jane Goodall travels 300 days a year.
- Analyst maps public New York City taxi database to celebrity news in order to determine how much famous people tip.
- Twitter wants to use phone numbers instead of passwords—and remake mobile development in the process.
- Day in the life of a Facebook content moderator in the Philippines: staring at the world's pornography, gore, and racism.
- RIP, Charles Bowden, fantastic chronicler of beauty and violence in the Southwest and Mexico.
- Study finds the single most important factor driving solar-panel installation is peer influence.
- Eight of the 10 biggest porn websites are owned by the same company; people "are scared to talk about it for fear of blacklisting."
- Game of Thrones puts out call for 600 extras in Spain; 86,000 apply for roles.
- Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 rewritten in 22 other forms, including an acrostic hiding his name as he signed it in his will.
- Your Friday quiz: Who Said It: Jaden Smith or Jean-Paul Sartre?
