September 10, 2015
- Oregon may be the driest state in the country, with 70% of the state in extreme drought.
- California is currently experiencing its largest forest fire, which has burned through 160 square miles of the San Joaquin Valley.
- Six brush fires alone were sparked by lightning in LA County yesterday.
- EU president announces refugee quota system that will distribute an additional 120,000 asylum seekers among member states.
- In Germany, 88% of citizens claim they've donated to refugees—a decisive shift from the country's attitude toward asylum-seekers in the '90s.
- Kerry: US should accept more refugees—as many as 100,000 next year.
- Online reviews of prisons and jails run from helpful to confessional.
- Police raid the home of someone parodying Peoria's mayor on Twitter, then had to pay $225,000 to settle.
- Rupert Murdoch just bought National Geographic for $725 million—the society says the deal will fund more scientists and explorers.
- "I don't think there needs to be any alarm that we're saying any way that you can catch Alzheimer's disease."
- But you could catch a long-dormant deadly virus frozen in permafrost now melting from global warming.
- "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a real sentence.
- TMN's Paul Ford on feminist parenting: Give your daughter more money than your son.
- See also: Paul Ford's "The Age of Mechanical Reproduction."
- Nils Frahm "covers" John Cage's 4'33".
- A short based on an interview with a "coyote"—someone paid to smuggle others from Mexico into the US.