September 4, 2013: Morning
- Radiocarbon analysis reveals Ancient Egyptian civilization began 1,400 years later than our current estimation.
- Female doctors and health professionals are paid 25% less than their male coworkers—25 years ago it was 20%.
- The paucity in philosophy of women and people of color is often blamed on [women and people of color].
- Microscopic roundworm eggs found in exhumed Richard III skeleton.
- China makes use of drones for commercial purposes, like delivering parcels and cakes.
- New device attempts to replace all your passwords and keys with a single wristband that syncs with your heart's electrical activity.
- Detailed, architectural parade floats composed entirely of dahlias.
- Google models new Android phone after KitKat.
- "This game is played by every seventh person in Hong Kong" and other absurd facts about Candy Crush.
- Factoids from Vanity Fair's mortality poll.
- "Ghetto Tracker" website, re-named "Good Part of Town," helps travelers avoid high concentrations of poor people.
- In a small but progressive step, New York Fashion Week to feature its first plus-size line.
- How Samuel Beckett's obsession with chess influenced his work.
- National Geographic's list of history's epic swims includes one by Lord Byron.
- Related: A former competitive swimmer can never truly stop being a swimmer.
- Hubble captures photo of six-trillion-mile-long cloud in the process of collapsing under its own gravity to give birth to a star.