September 6, 2011: Morning
By The Morning News
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- August becomes first month with no U.S. military deaths in Iraq since 2003.
- Interpol chief says the web has replaced Afghanistan as terrorists' main training ground.
- Hatfields and McCoys feuded from the Civil War until 1890, and again in 1947; but 9/11 brought them together.
- Remnick: This tenth anniversary is a marker, not an end.
- Forget New York: Singapore is the world's greatest city, and the ideal capital of a federal world.
- Texas battles worst fire season in state history.
- Researchers debate existence of Zomia, anarchist Asian state where people are "barbarians by design."
- Being driven crazy by others' eating noises now has a name: misophonia.
- Scientists discover what part of the brain to stimulate in order to reduce conformity.
- Long mocked, the bassoon is having a comeback in Gaga and Kanye's music, all-"oonist" bands.
- Ten years ago, there were half a dozen M.D./M.B.A. programs; now there are 65.
- Bankers in the U.S. have been paid $2.2 trillion over the past five years; investors would do better to reward productive companies.
- Advice for teenagers from Joss Whedon, Jack Black, Zooey Deschanel.
- Letters written from professional animators to amateur animators.
- Hourly differences in words used on Twitter.
- Jaron Lanier on Marxism, information sharing, and the internet making the middle class poor.
- Wealthy attendees at Burning Man redefine "radical self-reliance" with private jets, chefs, and RVs.
