October 3, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Dallas Ebola cleanup hampered due to the difficulty in finding people to clean up a contaminated apartment.
- Freelance NBC cameraman in Liberia tests positive for Ebola.
- Former Chicago police commander, jailed for perjury over torturing 118 black men, released after four years.
- On the Secret Service’s failures.
- Most "anti-psychopaths," aka ultra-altruists, give themselves low scores for empathy.
- Emergent.info tracks stories to see if they're true.
- Justice department finds "unabated" culture of sexual abuse at women's prison, and state investigators subsequently do nothing.
- Fleeing melted sea ice, 35,000 walruses land on an Alaskan beach.
- Perfect storm of urban change—lots of traffic, lots of sex work—made midcentury Kinshasa the starting point for HIV.
- Federal court decision shutters 13 more clinics in Texas, leaving the state with only eight abortion providers.
- Etsy increases number of female engineers by 500% after committing to changing its lopsided gender ratio.
- United Nations-supported men-only conference on gender equality to now include women at some sessions.
- Starbucks fan spends 17 years and more than $100,000 visiting 11,733 branches on six different continents.
- Would-be web designer rides Amtrak trains for half a year somewhat by accident.
- See also: Would-be designer's guide to riding Amtrak's rails, with camping tips.
- All German universities now free of charge.
- College football players only report four percent of head injuries.
- Profile of "the football," aka the black briefcase that has accompanied every US president since JFK.
- Animals do all the drugs we do, plus psychotropic beetle oil.
- Your weekend poem: "The Expendables 2," by Sam Riviere.
