September 5, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Emergency-room doctor writes about treating victims of an incendiary-bomb attack in Syria.
- Supporters of military intervention argue we should think of U.S. bombing runs in Bosnia in 1995, not Iraq in 2003.
- Round-up of Syria-related conspiracy theories.
- Every angle considered in case you, too, were suspicious about all the shark talk around Diana Nyad's historic swim.
- Melting glaciers are liberating ancient clothes, like a 1700-year-old sweater.
- Uneducated white women have lost five years in life expectancy and researchers aren't clear as to why.
- Outline of main argument points in the dining world's tipping debate.
- The business of running a newspaper in Myanmar.
- In general, experts are no better at predictions than a regular reader of the New York Times.
- N-gram analysis of the New York Times weddings section, where you can "visualize trends across 30+ years of yuppie nuptials."
- Economic analysis on whether chess world champions are just lucky (answer: kind of yes, kind of no).
- One man's life-altering decision to take home economics instead of shop.
- When listening to people giving advice, "the distinction between berks and wankers is rather useful."
- Tournament of Books finalist John Green explains 107 hyper-local slang words.
- In defense of the selfie: For people who live alone, especially those with short arms, the selfie is a solution, not a problem.
