October 29, 2014
- Unmanned rocket explodes over Virginia in first accident since NASA began outsourcing to private contractors.
- Stunning highlights from the 45,000 photos astronaut Chris Hadfield took while on the International Space Station.
- The FBI created a fake online news story in a Seattle newspaper to hack a suspect in 2007.
- Lead investigator in the 2012 Secret Service prostitution incident resigns over his own prostitution incident.
- Latin American presidents, buoyed by growth and protected by power, have won reelection almost without exception since 1980.
- Respectability politics is, at its root, the inability to look into the cold dark void of history.
- As corporations scramble to honor veterans, an ex-Ranger says thanking troops is no substitute for better politics.
- Three Israeli soldiers from the same unit committed suicide in the weeks after the ceasefire.
- Walking New York City as a woman: 10 hours and 100 harassments.
- On Taylor Swift's NYC PR campaign.
- The apparent silliness and superficiality of food fashions and trends touches on something deep: our ability to choose who we want to be.
- Swiss scientists genetically modify an apple to fizz in your mouth.
- The danger of Apple's Health app: It ignores menstruation, facilitates OCD behavior, and weight-shames.
- Sweden has a national font to broadcast its identity to the world. Should the US?
- See also: The federal government's official color palettes controls much of what we see.
- The history of "Monster Mash."