August 27, 2015

The Morning News http://ift.tt/1JxTVxX

China is investigating 23 people it says are responsible for the Tianjin explosions.

To save New Orleans, the Mississippi River mouth must be abandoned, say engineering and design teams.

New in German vernacular: “Merkeln,” which means “to do nothing, make no decisions, issue no statements.”

To anyone who has followed Burning Man’s recent history, the idea it is at all anticapitalist is absurd.

Newer Burning Man arrivals have brought “entitlement camps,” where moneyed partygoers eschew the desert’s hardships.

Not every product needs to be a Unicorn. Web entrepreneurs should prioritize sustainable startups over moonshot ideas.

Ashley Madison’s business was fantasy, not affairs—there were far too few real female users for that.

The Lord is righteous, and my people and I are problematic. Find and replace “wicked” with “problematic” in the Old Testament.

Gujarat faces upheaval as half a million Patels protest India’s reservation system, which ties jobs to caste.

Like Bernie, Jeremy Corbyn put in his time and stuck to his guns; now they’re both poised for a career-defining ascent.

Magazine covers have changed, and mostly for the worse—except National Geographic.

The overall global picture for vultures is abysmal. Vultures are dying as poisons filter through food chain.

“These primates have developed a culture that makes routine use of a stone-based technology. That means they have entered the Stone Age.”

After years of market stagnation that left mediocre Gogo as the only option, in-flight WiFi is due for an upgrade.

Without data on Amazon’s treatment of working mothers, we only have stories—here’s a discouraging one.

Science of love in the age of big data holds fewer answers than we want to believe. #longreads

Truffled: Warning sign for truffle oil, an ingredient only used by chefs who cry themselves to sleep. Menu-speak translations.