September 2, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Before Labor Day was all beach selfies and the death of white jeans, it was about the social advancement of common people.
- Chinese government creates full-court anti-Japan press, going so far as to create angry national holidays.
- Employing history of early Islam and the original caliphs, Islamic State thrills denizens and irks al Qaeda.
- UN will deploy team to Iraq to investigate accusations the Islamic State has engaged in ethnic cleansing.
- The celebrity nude-pic leak shows the hypocrisy of anti-NSA slut shamers, who blame women for breaches of their own privacy.
- Roxane Gay: "These women's lives and their private choices will be dissected. They are women, so they must be judged."
- The photo leak points to a larger security problem: Our phones contain sensitive data, but where they connect isn't always safe.
- Every US Open win for Andy Murray is a win for gender equity.
- New NFL video game becomes first to showcase an athlete's tattoos after licensing his artistic copyright.
- In Britain's revamped local school curriculum, five-year-olds will "create and debug simple programs," 11-year-olds will study Shakespeare.
- Acrophobia-inducing photos of Hong Kong.
- Retired Playboy Club Bunnies reunite.
- See also: Jessica Francis Kane interviews her mom, a former Playboy secretary.
- Grover Norquist goes to Burning Man.
- After selling one GIF for $1,300, artist tests market for pricey Koons knock-off GIFs.
- Resist the German wild boar if possible—they're still chock-full of Chernobyl radiation.
- The one-eyed, fanged, dung-named queen of bees: 60 weird epithets for monarchs.
- The first Eskimos went extinct.
- Two people who use pronouns, prepositions, and articles, in similar ways in everyday speech are more likely to date.
- On travel writing from a press trip in Guyana.
