October 7, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- U.S. credits Assad for eliminating Syria's chemical weapons.
- Hallway, bathroom, and other informal talks between Congress members offer hope for an end to the government shutdown.
- We won't actually know if the Tripoli raid counts as any sort of a triumph either until we see...Abu Anas standing in a courtroom in Manhattan.
- The Silk Road removed the friction from end-user sales; with its bust, look for a return to drug violence.
- Not enough people donate their bodies to science.
- How Watson, IBM's thinking computer and Jeopardy! champ, could one day dethrone Google.
- Daft Punk keeps the corrections department of the New York Times busy.
- Morrissey says he enjoyed the strips and wasn't behind the shutdown of "This Charming Charlie."
- All-female "pagan" singing group brings sex appeal to the Madrigals, causes boom in English church attendance.
- Love for language—memorizing grammar rules and style shibboleths—is too often coupled with smug self-congratulation.
- Eta Carinae, 100 times the mass of our sun and one million times brighter, could explode as a supernova in the not-too-distant future.
- Right or left-handedness not determined by genetics, new study says.
- Portraits of inmates in Russia and Ukraine.
- History and infrastructure inflated the size of Americans' refrigerators—which are the largest in the world.
- Adult flushable wipes are a burgeoning industry, but they're causing millions of dollars of damage to pipes and treatment plants.
