September 16, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Syrian National Coalition says, if you're going to ban chemical weapons, could you please also ban aerial bombing, too.
- Pravda agrees to publish column by John McCain attacking Putin's leadership.
- State-sponsored Voice of Russia proposes transferring Obama's Nobel prize to Putin.
- Aerial footage of devastation caused by Colorado's floods.
- On Mondays following an NFL game, saturated-fat intake increases in cities with losing teams, decreases in cities with winning teams.
- Biden said to have the presidential ambitions that Cheney lacked, but not the clear field to run that Gore enjoyed.
- Zambia is the only country "to start the Olympics as one country and finish it as another."
- Any two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians is dead; further negotiations along those lines are phony.
- NASA's Voyager 1, carrying Sagan's "golden record," becomes the first human-made object to enter interstellar space.
- Profile of the most likely candidate for a revolution in mental health research: the "Research Domain Criteria" project.
- Bhutan, "world's happiest country," has very few psychiatrists and they're incredibly overburdened.
- Islamic law prohibits 96% of the population from drinking, but alcohol-related illness is on the rise in Pakistan.
- Invasive species have been solely responsible for 20% of extinctions since 1600 and partly responsible for half of them.
- First of all, cutting up a dead animal does not mean you have to eat the insides.
- Portraits of Atlanta residents smoking cigarettes "in their natural environments."
- Japanese rock star's video inspires dangerous trend: fans inserting themselves into typhoons for the sake of social media fame.
- Key dates in the Japanese food transition.
