September 23, 2013: Morning
- Survival stories from the Nairobi mall attack.
- Essential: A backgrounder on al-Shabab's war with Kenya.
- Death toll in Pakistani church bombing climbs to 78; Taliban says violence will continue until U.S. drone attacks end.
- A month-by-month timeline of U.S.-attributed civilian deaths in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2012.
- Aerial photos show North Korea is likely testing more long-range rocket engines.
- See also: Today's leaders compared to their greatest predecessors, both in deed and caricature.
- We think "WTF" is a recent development, but its many meanings have been around since the 1980s.
- The word "sweet" appears 840 times in your complete Shakespeare, nearly a thousand if you accept close variants.
- How the zany catchphrases and neologisms (e.g., "friend zone") from Friends, changed English forever.
- In a secular world, the problem-solving detective is the closest we have to a priestly figure.
- How a Twitter war and a rapper fueled gang violence in Chicago.
- Related: Drill music has attracted major labels to Chicago in search of young rappers—as gang violence turns the city into the murder capital.
- The "feminization" of concrete has made it a more appealing material to use in interior decoration.
- Greece's Cookisto—like Airbnb for food—facilitates paying fast-food prices for home-cooked meals.
- Dogs could be used as accurate gauges of how "human" a robot is.