September 17, 2014
By The Morning News
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- The US government threatened to prosecute James Foley's family if they attempted to negotiate with ISIS.
- Federal agents are saving America $1 billion annually by eradicating cattle ticks, a deadly pest that can kill a cow in a week.
- Utah initiative that gives the chronically homeless housing, regardless of program progress, has been an economic and social success.
- Unlike England, Scotland has yet to reconcile ethnicity and nationality.
- As relations with Moscow wither on Earth, US finalizes plans for home-grown travel to the International Space Station.
- Among the 2014 MacArthur "geniuses": cartoonist Alison Bechdel, labor organizer Ai-jen Poo, and director Joshua Oppenheimer.
- Prescription painkiller-related deaths quadrupled among white people from 1999 to 2011, outpacing every other racial group.
- My tour of a disaster zone.
- Droves of Indians and Pakistanis search for safety, as the region experiences the worst flooding in 50 years.
- Science suggests pleasure—not anger—drives the internet's obsession with hate-reading.
- The internet hasn't killed libraries—younger Americans are more likely than those over 30 to have visited one in the past year.
- While much of the world—especially the US—now buys music digitally, CDs still account for 85% of all music sales in Japan.
- Martin Amis's newest novel, a concentration camp satire, is being roundly rejected by European publishers.
- Ninety-three-year-old Auschwitz guard is charged with the deaths of more than 300,000 holocaust victims.
- St. Louis County police chief stands by Ferguson militarization.
- Ten-year-old Australian goldfish receives brain surgery, is expected to live another 20 years.
- From auto-correct to U2, why iPhones are a tool of the patriarchy.
- Jessica Valenti: New contraception technology for men won't address underlying gender norms around sex and reproduction.
