September 18, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Initially saying asylum seekers could pass through freely, Croatia closes borders after 11,000 migrants pour in.
- Trump doesn't correct questioner who says Obama is a Muslim.
- Trump has shown us that if 2012 was the first internet election, 2016 is the first viral election.
- Why aliens abduct humans, according to economists.
- Apple's ad-blocking broadside will undercut Google and pressure the rest of the ad-based web to adapt or die.
- In a world after ad blocking, expect more native advertising—and unblockable ads on monster platforms.
- Parasitic wasps weaponize genetically engineered viruses against host caterpillars.
- President Carter watched Star Wars with Anwar Sadat, and other revelations from the Carter movie logbook.
- "I still feel like I know more about how 9/11 affected Rannazzisi from the fabricated story than from the real one."
- Profile of C.J. Chivers, an ex-Marine who added forensic ballistics expertise to war journalism, as he steps away from war zones.
- Scientists are mining the genome of the long-lived bowhead whale for cancer-suppressing insights.
- Data analytics are changing how Hollywood assembles its teams.
- Amidst America's opiate epidemic, many are learning they entrusted their loved ones to underregulated, underperforming rehab scams in south Florida.
- Genetic engineers are figuring out they can raise a person's resting happiness level, but not above a certain threshold.
- New Horizons captured a sunset on Pluto.
- Ikea shopping and furniture assembly makes couples fight because it dredges up pasts and insecurities.
- The Ikea walkthrough.
- Quiz: Is it the title of a porno or a Bukowski poem?