October 9, 2015
- "If current rates of smoking in China continue...2 million people in China will die per year in 2030."
- The House's best move to replace Boehner is simply not to vote, so he remains Speaker.
- As the debt ceiling deadline looms, Boehner's departure threatens to slow down an already glacial Congress.
- What you need to know—in cartoon form—about debt ceilings, from McKinley's war with Spain to Obama getting punk'd.
- Canadian PM's office halts Syrian refugee intake over apparent security concerns.
- Submit your questions now to Paul Ford for the first Digg Dialog, happening today at 12 p.m. ET.
- How to watch the Draconid meteors, which may be visible where you are tonight—another shower happens Oct. 22.
- ISPs might start charging by gigabyte of data, which would make using the internet off-limits to everyone but the wealthy.
- The University of Chicago uses its influence to both directly alter and subtly redefine the spaces at its peripheries.
- The Chicago End-Times: How a once-vital metro daily newspaper aggregated itself to the point of inanity.
- Uber drivers in Chicago hate Uber as much as taxis do.
- Studying the carbon emissions of eating—at a fancy restaurant, at a neighborhood restaurant, and at home.
- On chefs who open up restaurants inside Urban Outfitters.
- "The best that can be said for the looting of the Kenyon Review archives by David Breithaupt was that it could have been worse."
- When white rappers appropriate only the most violent aspects of rap.