September 11, 2014
By The Morning News
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- The Islamic State raises most of its money domestically in Iraq and Syria by smuggling oil.
- Iran reminds its citizens that the Islamic State, like Al Qaeda and the Taliban, was devised by the CIA as a counterweight to Iran.
- Things found on an Islamic State laptop: Celine Dion and recipes for banana mousse and ricin.
- Haunting moments from this summer: the little girl with the Uzi, the police officer with the rifle, the terrorist with the knife.
- Britney Spears’s new lingerie line debuts at the New York Public Library.
- Philosophy academic, who "writes books for no one," surprised to see his book cover worn by models and Jay-Z.
- Reading Harry Potter found to make children and teenagers nicer.
- Young women discuss growing up while reading Harry Potter, Twillight, and 50 Shades of Gray at crucial stages of their personal development.
- Coming soon: Second biennial New York City three-day marathon-style reading of Moby-Dick.
- Number of independent bookstores in the US rose by more than 20% between 2009 and 2014.
- Related: Woman reports back after visiting nearly all of America's independent bookstores (virtually).
- Graphene, new material that's only one atom thick and 200 times stronger than steel, resulted from a $10 bet.
- Dallas County Jail may do away with visitation rights in favor of a 50-cents-per-minute videochat system.
- Six US army helicopters landed in a Polish field to ask for directions.
- Kissinger displeased to be grilled over his past actions in Chile and Cambodia.
- Trials of a wannabe London cabbie, altering his brain to memorize the city's streets.
- DJs now deliberately making mistakes to prove they're really DJs and not computers.
- Alex Ross on the pleasures and frustrations of listening to classical music in the cloud.
- Brief history of Boston’s strange apples.
