Under the Volcano
A Seattle painter creates friendly portraits of volcanoes in part to mitigate fears of complete system failure.
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A collection of 14232 issues
October 13, 2014
* Hundreds of thousands have evacuated their homes, and Japan watches for flash floods and landslides as typhoon reaches land. * Authorities don't know why radiation levels in the water around Fukushima increased 10-fold after a weekend of typhoon-related rain. * In Hong Kong, hundreds of Anti-Occupy protestors
October 10, 2014
* As hostilities break out between the countries, Pakistani teenager and Indian children's rights activist receive the Nobel peace prize. * Airline cabin cleaners strike at LaGuardia Wednesday night over fears about Ebola. * Following an ease on travel restrictions, more than 22,000 Cubans emigrated to the US in the
The Combination Lock Test
A man dies, leaving behind, among other things, a combination lock. Opening it may just prove the existence of the afterlife.
October 9, 2014
* St. Louis police officer shoots and kills teenager whom witnesses claim was unarmed. * There's little evidence airport fever screenings can prevent Ebola's spread—passengers may not show symptoms during travel. * Actually, America does negotiate with terrorists, and the FBI—or a proxy foreign government—will help
Chicago Fear
Life in a city, including its dangers, can be evaluated in a thousand ways. But dangerous and scary are different adjectives, and different measurements. Especially after a man appears below your stairs.
October 8, 2014
* Hourly Amazon workers, who spend up to 25 unpaid minutes being screened for stolen goods—head to the Supreme Court. * Walmart cuts benefits for its 30,000 part-time employees—and didn't even blame Obamacare. * Following Monday's Supreme Court ruling, Ninth Circuit strikes down gay marriage
October 7, 2014
* Soldier from Wisconsin explains why (anger) and how (plane ticket) he joined Kurdish fighters in Syria to battle ISIS. * Sketches from Raqqa, Syria, a city that's completely under ISIS control. * Obama's "latte salute" notwithstanding, the pejorative term "latte liberal" has lost its
Umbrellas of Hope
A week’s worth of street photographs and interviews from the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong—that most civil of civil disobedience movements.
October 6, 2014
* Roberts Supreme Court faces history-making docket. * California ballot initiative could overturn the state's mandatory sentencing laws, the harshest in the country. * From December 2013 to today, a timeline of Ebola's spread throughout West Africa. * Like Thomas Eric Duncan in Dallas, nine others who came in