September 18, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- American Journal of Medicine fast-tracks publication of study proving high gun ownership makes the U.S. less safe.
- The next mass shooting will take place on February 12, 2014, in Spokane, Wash., by a 38-year-old white man at a place he used to work.
- Related: "It’s not enough anymore to say that Americans love their guns. The question is: Why do we kill?"
- Approximately 8 million adults in the U.S. are thinking seriously about suicide; 1.1 million will actually attempt it.
- A middle-class American family in 1989 made more than a middle-class family made one year ago.
- Bill collectors will pay significant money for a $1 bill with a unique serial number.
- All the financial advice you'll ever need, written down on an index card.
- Ian Crouch considers the plight of publishing when books, thanks to a new reading app, become streams.
- REI changes returns policy after too many members profit off the retailer's willingness to refund nearly anything.
- Twenty years later, story of the Apple Newton, "the handheld that might have changed the world."
- Apple is "so far outside convention that it’s not something reasonable people are willing to believe actually exists."
- Thirty-seven percent of Italians have never used the internet, compared with an EU average of 22%.
- Short film: "A Day in the Life of a British Clothing Factory."
- He always carried a riding whip in his hand with which he used incessantly to chop off imaginary heads as he walked.
- Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first episode of Late Night With Conan O'Brien with his 20 best characters.
- Every Ivy League school has an eponymous cocktail; "US Booze & World Report" ranks them.
- How cocktails get their names.
