October 27, 2014
- For the first time in the history of independent Ukraine, the pro-Russian Communist Party failed to win the votes needed to enter parliament.
- Latin America has the highest concentration of compulsory-voting states—a policy suppressed elsewhere for fear of union power.
- Following controversial Ebola quarantine of health worker in New Jersey, Gov. Cuomo revises policy to allow home isolation.
- Ebola in Liberia: "The worst is yet to come, especially when we take into account the social and economic impact."
- Rwanda bans local-language BBC broadcasts after its documentary recast the majority of genocide victims as Hutu.
- Rather than burying its dead, a village in Bali leaves bodies to decompose in the open, on an island cemetery.
- Years of drought and record high temperatures could mean a crisis for farmers in California's Central Valley.
- Developers are working to replace windows in commercial aircraft with full-length screens that project the view.
- How to spot a hidden handgun.
- Mention the idea of "toxic masculinity" in American culture, and a bunch of angry men will immediately demonstrate it.
- Roxane Gay gives 11 theses on novels and feminism.
- At the core of Marble Hornets is the idea that a meme can be scary.
- On ManServants, the cadre of hot men who will make women feel special for $125 an hour—sex not included.
- In the 19th century, a French con man stood trial for the swindle of a lifetime: creating oleomargarine.