September 17, 2013: Morning
- CDC issues report on the top antibiotic-resistant infection threats.
- Actually, John McCain won't be published in the print Pravda, but Pravda.ru, which split from the the Communist organ years ago.
- In Russia, an argument over Kant ends in a shooting.
- Studies show Facebook makes us sad and happy—it depends on how we use it.
- Iran unblocks Twitter and Facebook.
- Today's kids are actually writing longer and better essays than people in Twitter-less 1917.
- Q&A with Marilynne Robinson.
- The term "almond-shaped eyes," often used to describe people of Asian descent, dates back to the 1700s and is not entirely accurate.
- City of Milwaukee plans to use cheese brine instead of salt to make roads less slippery this winter.
- Swedish National Food Agency confirms beaver poop could be used to achieve the flavor or aroma of vanilla.
- For the 30th anniversary of Jeopardy!, a collection of the show's weirdest clips.
- Vintage crime scene photos superimposed on today's New York.
- High-speed images of ink being dropped in oil.
- Math brings us fractals and the Big Bang—and contrary to popular opinion, it's easy to love.
- Dancer Lucas Boirat partners with an orb of light that shifts into various geometric shapes.
- A catalog of Fortune magazine graphics from the 1940s and '50s.