September 2, 2015
- Dennis Hale from "The Gales of November" died today—nearly 49 years after surviving the next-to-last Great Lakes shipwreck.
- The migrant crisis: Germany welcomes with water and documentation; Budapest overwhelmed, closes train station.
- Which European nations are letting in refugees.
- Unpaid political ads—e.g., Trump's Instagram posts—fall outside the FEC's purview, requiring no disclaimers.
- Based on a reporter's metadata, readers try to discern facts about his life, and sometimes get creepily close.
- Fecal donors help save C. diff patients' lives—only 3% of potential donors are healthy enough for the job.
- One year into its operation, Britain's national sperm bank has only nine registered donors.
- Surgeons can now revive recently deceased hearts to then be used for transplants.
- CDC: More than 40% of Americans' "heart ages" are five or more years older than the rest of their bodies.
- Heroism is the result of instinct, a decision to act before thinking.
- Use of computers and mobile phones could be why seniors' cognition appears up to eight years younger than their bodies.
- Leaked Sony emails show Will Smith's concussion movie was softened to avoid the NFL's wrath.
- Behind Hillary Clinton's "gefilte fish" email: She was pushing Israel to allow a US carp shipment.