October 3, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- People tell Jimmy Kimmel whether they prefer the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare.
- Many Americans think their politicians spout childish nonsense, but rarely have they actually revelled in doing so.
- FBI arrests alleged Dread Pirate Roberts, man behind Silk Road, the online drug bazaar.
- Corruption takes on "mind-bending new forms" in Russia; $30 billion believed to have been already siphoned off from Sochi Olympics projects.
- Driving around the Middle East said to be like entering the Wild West.
- Los Angeles County prosecutors decide not to charge Justin Bieber for allegedly threatening a neighbor and spitting in that man’s direction.
- Tom Clancy predicted, in one form or another, the 9/11 attacks and the Russian-Georgian War.
- Allan Gurganus is back, and "one can’t tell whether the author is mixing metaphors or just surpassing them in mid-sentence."
- See also: Gurganus on Cheever turning 100.
- Picturing your Twitter timeline if it extended above and below the screen.
- FIfty years of headlines from the New York Review of Books.
- "Cool" has outlasted other slang, but today the stakes of coolness have become "disastrously high."
- Music has gotten louder over the years, in small increments since 1950, but 39% since 1990.
- Controlled, randomized experiments used to find the best method of making coffee—which turns out to be simple, quick, and inexpensive.
- All salt can be kosher (if it’s produced under kosher supervision) but not all kosher salt is kosher.
