October 3, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Maybe our leaders, who seem so quick to threaten violence or shut down the government, should spend some time with dairy cows.
- The Congressmen who drove the shutdown come from overwhelmingly white, gerrymandered districts—and represent 18% of the population.
- A study correlates conspiracy theorists with those who distrust scientists on vaccinations, GMO foods, and climate change.
- The Great Recession...split America into to ever-more-rapidly diverging ideological camps.
- Predictions for 2014 and why they may not happen.
- See also: None of our predictions for 2013 have come true.
- Since 2007, UK police have been running "capture houses"—furnished homes designed to lure and record burglars.
- How the Silk Road kingpin blew his cover: by accidentally posting his identity when asking the internet for code help.
- More on Silk Road: The hit man contacted by Dread Pirate Roberts was an undercover cop who received $80,000 for a fake murder.
- Related: The Silk Road shutdown could legitimize Bitcoin, helping shed its reputation as black-hat currency.
- Adelle Waldman on the single-mindedness of the male gaze.
- Radcliffe, in person, generally vibrates at a faster frequency than the character that made him famous.
- Astronaut creates a stuffed toy for her son using materials aboard the International Space Station.
- How the end of Breaking Bad helped Damon Lindelof move past fan hatred of the Lost finale.
- Dinosaur-on-human erotica exists.
