September 9, 2014
- America's missile shield appears doomed.
- The world is under-reacting to Ebola—WHO says it will take a "massive" response to stop the crisis within nine months.
- Eating junk food creates fewer greenhouse gases than a healthy diet—but removing meat is best of all.
- Louisiana's daily shifting shoreline.
- Related: Photos compare New Orleans to Latin America and Caribbean cities.
- Statewide emergency declared after record-breaking floods submerge parts of Arizona.
- Half of the bird species in North America might leave the continent by the end of the century.
- See also: Illustrations of the eggs and nests omitted from Audubon's large catalog.
- The moon illusion: why the moon looks really, really big sometimes.
- ISIS-affiliated group calls for attacks on Twitter employees in retaliation for closing their accounts.
- Reddit is a failed state.
- AFP's product is the new prosperity gospel, a quasi-religious belief in the ability of the free market to solve social problems.
- Most of the 80,000 unaccompanied children are finding new homes—a 10-year-old travels from El Salvador to California.
- Horrifying LHJ marriage advice.
- All the nostalgia for Friends on its 20th anniversary is misplaced: The show was awful.
- Tuesday poem: "Ode to Masturbation."
- An interview with Layton City, Utah, Police Chief Terry Keefe about serially imprisoned Chicago rapper Chief Keef.