October 9, 2013: Morning
- Main NSA data center in Utah, which uses enough energy to power 33,000 houses, experiences electrical issues.
- MI5 agent defends British surveillance.
- See also: Apology notes from the NSA to private citizens.
- Kuwait claims it has the technology to detect homosexuals—an actual gaydar—and will use it to bar the "unhealthy."
- Why Higgs (the scientist)—and not some of the other researchers involved with the particle—won the Nobel.
- Why Americans rarely win Nobels in literature.
- An etymological cauldron of words related to witches and witchcraft.
- New study suggests viewing photos of food on Instagram and Pinterest creates "sensory boredom," resulting in appetite loss.
- There's no evidence that narcissists are more creative than the rest of us. But there is evidence that they think they are.
- Starbucks UK launches doughnut-muffin hybrid.
- Photo of the day: An orca whale attacks a sea lion in shallow surf.
- Hidden cameras in Borneo rainforest capture a Sumatran rhino, long presumed extinct in the country; fewer than 275 remain in the wild.
- Chris Brown admits first sexual experience happened at age eight; it was child rape.
- Fifty state stereotypes in two minutes.
- Former nurse recreates famous portraits using trinkets and scraps of childhood toys.
- Related: Mona Lisa as you've never seen her before—liberated, assertive, ferocious.