October 28, 2014
By The Morning News
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- In a rare, school-specific survey, 17% of female MIT students and 5% of male students report being sexually assaulted.
- Ebola vaccines must be tested, but administering frontline workers a placebo could be unethical.
- In distancing themselves from an unpopular president, midterm candidates have succeeded only in disowning their own legacy.
- Demographics show Texas could one day turn blue, but Wendy Davis's abortion stance is unappealing to many Hispanic voters.
- Discriminatory voter ID laws prevent a man in Texas from voting, even though he has never left Austin in his life.
- A new climate change model predicts colder Eurasian winters until the 2030s, once the Arctic sea ice is gone.
- Religions have surprisingly diverse approaches to the issue of possible extraterrestrial life.
- On California's new ruling on "affirmative consent" and the overlap between feminist and Christian approaches to sex.
- A WiFi network called "Al Qaeda Free Terror Network" grounded a flight at LAX on Sunday.
- Once the dominant religion in hip-hop, Islamic references in rap are at an all-time low.
- A reporter tries to find an Uber driver earning what the company claims is its median annual income: $90,766.
- See also: Ubering while black.
- More and more, LGBT young adults still financially dependent on their religious parents become homeless after coming out.
- You don't want to believe your grandmother is poisoning you.
- Inside the world of tourist-friendly caves.
- When faced with complex situations, new research shows we make smarter choices when we're hungry.
- Cartoonist David Rees mashes up Taylor Swift and Aphex Twin.
- Rosetta probe detects a comet's smell, which is not unlike rotten eggs and urine.
