September 3, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Barbara Mikulski's support pushed Obama's Iran deal over the top, the culminating step in a well-laid plan.
- Republicans are eyeing how to delay implementation of the Iran Deal, or use it as a wedge issue against Democrats in 2016.
- China celebrates Japan's WWII defeat anniversary with pride—Westerners don't learn much about their efforts against the Axis.
- After displaying fearsome new military technology, China announces reduction of personnel by 15%.
- Yesterday marked the first time Chinese warships have been seen near Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
- "A team of unarmed Arctic researchers are trapped by hungry polar bears."
- Don't call them "car accidents"—they're not random, and we can reduce them if we try.
- Badly designed walkways are causing "the amassing of a population of urban citizens with epidemic levels of boredom."
- Researchers trained a phone to detect boredom.
- Mountain Jane Doe, the baffling last case in a career spent identifying missing persons.
- Darkness may help heal lazy eye, but it's hard to achieve perfect dark for patients, even in lab settings.
- Bernie Sanders pitches to Dem kingmakers: We will only win if we turn out voters—so look at the numbers.
- Baseball's art of the bat flip—considered arrogant in America, it's commonplace in Korea.
- Reliance on GPS shrinks our hippocampuses and reduces our navigational skills.
- Driven by moral and financial concerns relating to climate change, California will sell off pension investments in coal.
- British newspapers protest BBC's publicly funded online dominance of local news.
- Business officials bungled a gerrymandering deal and created a district with exactly one voter.
- New Zealand is redesigning its flag and no one likes the choices.
- Romance novels colonize the Amish, "long the object of prurient curiosity" from modern America.
- Selling plasma offers a brutal last-ditch source of income for an America without welfare.
- Documenting disappearing stepwalls.
- "For a while a lot of people did not know that Lisa Frank was a person."
- Ashamed their nation is only offering to receive 50 Syrian refugees, 12,000 Icelanders sign up to help.
- "My Nephew Has Some Questions," Jesse Eisenberg.
