September 21, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Tsiprias calls re-election a clear mandate; Greece's fifth election in six years had record low turnout.
- US military directed its soldiers to ignore Afghan commanders' sexual abuse of boys.
- "They were novices, with higher voices than mine, and they didn’t know where to find an ATM."
- Like the rest of Germany, Dachau is struggling to house refugees. The only place to put them: the sites of Holocaust death camps.
- Around the world, aquifers are drying up—and, as seen in Saudi Arabia, they won’t replenish.
- Los Angeles has to borrow water. Las Vegas is the improbable donor.
- One grandiose water project to invade Canada and solve the Western water crisis ended up a symbol of 20th century hubris.
- How the Yukon Gold Rush spawned Donald Trump’s family wealth.
- South Korea requires smartphones to be sold with parental oversight apps, but the apps can be easily hijacked by a dedicated hacker.
- In language and stories, finance is always cloaked in so much mystique.
- A Spanish-language hashtag campaign is fighting to save its disappearing accent marks.
- An ex-NBA star is mayor of Sacramento, but recent corruption seems connected to his wife, a high-powered school privatization expert.
- It's difficult to separate Kareem Abdul-Jabbar from his new novel about Mycroft Holmes, so stop trying.
- A terrifying childhood incident ignites a lifelong phobia-but the real culprit is Arthur Conan Doyle.
- "Over time, can electronic media’s caged hallucinations affect the hemispheric balance of the brain and dramatically change us?"
- Photos of Chicago locations the day after a murder took place there.
- Learning fear in Chicago.
- Columbia's student government introduces meal-sharing app for wealthy students to suckle their hungry classmates.
- Giant wooden megaphones in Estonian forests.
- Giraffes emit low-frequency humming at night.
