October 4, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Editors of the National Review offer Republicans three strategies for ending the shutdown without losing too much face.
- Far-right Republicans are deeply angry because America's political reality really does seem to have a liberal bias.
- There have been at least five shootings and bombings on the Capitol grounds since the early 1970s.
- Thomas Jefferson, as impersonated by historian Clay Jenkinson, offers his views on Syria and foreign intervention.
- Rap-statistics tool measures rise and fall of "crunk," "molly," "twerk" in lyrics, and how rap reacted to the War on Terror after 9/11.
- New book about nuclear accidents shows that a disaster will certainly occur, sooner or later.
- Not from The Onion: "10-Year-Old Accidentally Creates New Molecule in Science Class."
- Behind-the-scenes reporting as the producers of Top Chef: New Orleans film their pilot episode.
- Man explains how he used profits from renting out his San Francisco apartment on Airbnb to purchase a new house—in order to rent it out on Airbnb.
- For an extra fee, OkCupid.com lets users hide potential dates according to body type.
- At the end of the day, chasing salmon is about something more than just catching a fish.
- CNN reporter, while interviewing a subject for a story about an airport, realizes the subject is the voice of Apple's Siri.
- Sinead O'Connor writes a letter to Miley Cyrus.
- Related: An open letter to the writers of open letters.
- Former top physics pupil at Yale seeks out former classmates and professors to figure out why there are still so few women in science.
- Author interviews her mother about life as a secretary in 1960s New York City.
- See also: Rustling papers, drawers closing, typing, and footsteps—sounds of an office from 1964.
- Friday web comic: "A Photo of Yourself From the Future."
