September 16, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Multiple fatalities at a shooting in a naval office building not far from Capitol Hill.
- By the end of this century, scientists predict, seas may be 150 percent more acidic than they were in the 18th century.
- Franzen: "Real anger, anger as a way of life, was foreign to me until one particular afternoon in April 1982."
- Booker shortlist and other literary honors see a rise in books relating to Christ.
- I had read dozens of McCann’s blurbs before I’d read any of his novels: I doubted his ability to compose a meaningful sentence.
- Swartz, Manning, and Snowden demonstrate that young people haven't lost their moral compass.
- Texas regularly pursues legal action to protect its slogan "Don’t Mess With Texas.”
- If you’re a parent and one of the Mini Maker Faires is in your town, by all means do everything you can to attend one.
- Pictures from two artists who used the recession to become long-haul truckers.
- Molly user and dealer explains what the drug is and isn't, and why Molly and EDM are hopelessly intertwined.
- Orchestra of working instruments constructed from weapons seized from Mexican drug cartels.
- Portraits of maids in Mexico City walking the boss's dog.
- "Wild Orangutan Males Plan and Communicate Their Travel Direction One Day in Advance."
- Minecraft used globally in classrooms to teach students about gravity, city planning, and how to learn a new language.
- For those feeling nostalgic: Photographs of various fantastic Walkmen.
- Oldie but goldie: Assessment of menus from Berkeley's Chez Panisse.
- See also: Southern Belgium graveyard of cars that once belonged to U.S. servicemen.
- British WWII propaganda sets menacing footage of Nazi troops to the tune of a jaunty musical number.
