October 28, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Nineteen Syrian rebel groups reject participation in peace talks, demand end of the al-Assad government.
- No matter what you read in the news, bullying is not on the rise and it does not lead to suicide.
- Relatively large, never-seen-before asteroid very likely will not strike Earth on August 26, 2032.
- German astronaut fact-checks Gravity.
- In South Korea's mono-culture, “people would rather be the tail of a dragon than the head of a snake.”
- There is no such thing as "a math person," and that differentiation puts America at a disadvantage.
- Ex-neo-Nazis, racist skinheads, and just plain old former racists explain what changed their minds.
- Zadie Smith: Between the all-singing, all-dancing employees of Pret-A-Manger in New York and the stony-faced contempt of everybody in London, I opt for the latter.
- Sasha Frere-Jones, who transcribed the lyrics to every Velvet Underground album, pays tribute to Lou Reed.
- He belittled and berated me, but I say thank god Lou Reed was here.
- Ars Technica offers a rave review of Tesla Motors' all-electric Model S—a great commuter car for the 21st century.
- Rent-A-Chicken, a business based in Michigan, "lets customers try out the idea of keeping egg-laying hens in their backyards."
- American Apparel's ads make it easy to study how women, not men, are sexualized in our society.
- Brief history of the word "dude."
- Bill Cunningham's latest video about people wearing black in Paris adds more evidence to the case that he's a living legend.
- Differences between porn sex and real sex explained with food.
- See also: Relationships reimagined in photographs—for example, a couple can be a piece of sushi.
