September 9, 2013: Morning
- Brief rundown of Syria's many rebel groups, majority of which are under the nominal control of the Supreme Military Council.
- Statistical overview of prison suicides.
- Interactive visualizations of stop-and-frisk policing based on NYPD data.
- For teenagers, e-cigarettes could be a gateway to tobacco addiction rather than an escape.
- Chinese wines will become a "cool oddity," but China will never [be] able to produce quality wine on a global scale.
- Venezuela undergoes severe newsprint shortage; half the country's local press expected to go out of print.
- A profile of Arion Press, the only full-service letterpress in the U.S.
- Due to non-recyclable binding and declining popularity, England's charity shops overwhelmed by Fifty Shades of Grey.
- Related: Fifty Shades of Grey re-branded to appeal to audiences in each of America's 50 states.
- Celebrity portraits made with instant ramen ingredients.
- Facebook co-founder defends startup entrepreneurs' place at Burning Man.
- See also: Diddy attends Burning Man.
- Trypophobia: a condition in which people become viscerally upset after looking at images of clustered holes, e.g., honeycombs or soap bubbles.
- The earth's largest volcano is the size of New Mexico, located under the Pacific Ocean.
- The Sossusvlei area of the Namib Desert is so dry that the sand is rusted and the trees cannot decompose.