October 27, 2015
- If last night's debt ceiling deal happens, it's good for Obama's legacy, Ryan's cotillion, and Boehner's barn.
- South Carolina campus cop tosses desk-bound student to the floor.
- A lack of sleep can undermine all areas of health—and blacks are five times more likely to be short of sleep.
- Black men are leaving teaching. Their colleagues don't see them as peers.
- US flouts provocation warnings, sails warship near China's artificial islands in disputed waters.
- China's first attempt at a domestically built cruise liner will be ambitious—twice the size of the Titanic, in fact.
- A cracker from a Titanic lifeboat's survival kit sells at auction for $23,000.
- Indigenous communities in Arctic north hope solar power will unshackle them from reliance on Canadian diesel.
- Climate change report says areas of the Persian Gulf could be "intolerable to humans" by the end of the century.
- Methane plumes in the Pacific near Washington are either really bad or relatively unimportant.
- Don't call Ben Carson "low energy."
- Failed "Uber for home cleaning" regrets not engaging with national discussion on independent contracting in sharing economy.
- Google's AI edge is helping its ranking algorithm interpret never-before-seen queries.
- SXSW capitulates to Gamergate threats and cancels two of its 2016 panels.
- When the Blair Witch Project website launched—when few understood the internet—it convinced many the movie was real.
- Resharpen your skills: How to carve a pumpkin.
- North Carolina Children's Hospital names wing after special sponsor: Krispy Kreme.
- Politics of sex-ed textbooks deconstructed at sentence level.
- From script to storyboard, this is how The Simpsons is made.