October 28, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- According to Spiegel research, the NSA and CIA have used the American Embassy in Berlin as a listening station.
- The largest business in death care in North America expects by early 2014 to ingest the next-largest chain.
- Related: America’s funeral parlors mostly rely on one man to provide their theme music.
- "Haunts"—formerly known as haunted houses—are now big business, with annual sales reaching $1 billion.
- Director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says we're now living in the post-antibiotic era.
- Freelance researcher runs randomized blind trial of three-day LSD microdoses and finds no benefits, only worrisome negative trends.
- Related: "The Heretic."
- Adam Gopnik on the assassination of J.F.K., 50 years later.
- More than three-fourths of American commuters drove to work in single-occupancy vehicles in 2009.
- Isolation, rural decline, chips on shoulders, and a sense of a lack of respect from Washington all contribute to the new secessionist mindset.
- Individuals in Nigeria build bridges when the government won't and then run their own toll booths.
- Lou Reed on Kanye West.
- Halloween costume ideas, with actual fashion tips, based on horrible people from history.
- Advice offered to people who plan to run marathons or other races while in costume this autumn.
- Round-up of long-form journalism about stand-up comics.
- The Winston Churchill estate is so protective of his copyright, if you write a book about him, "you are likely to go into the red."
- Brontës, Wordsworths, and other literary siblings.
