August 28, 2015

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

In another migrant tragedy, boat capsizes off Libyan coast; up to 200 people are believed dead.

Found on an Austrian highway: an abandoned truck with 71 Syrian refugees who likely died of suffocation.

The crowd can hear the rumbling and starts to shout and jostle. On the ground with Europe’s migrants.

After years of protest, Walmart will stop selling assault-style rifles, hopes other retailers will follow suit.

Donald Trump is Bill Clinton: Both are hypomanic with impulse issues.

Donald Trump is Henry Ford: Both ran for the GOP nomination on a xenophobic platform.

Workers mistakenly demolish ancient Spanish tomb, cover their error by pouring a concrete picnic table in its place.

For about a decade, the world’s happiness index has settled in at 71.

Psychology as a whole faces an uncertain road as a groundbreaking metastudy suggests experimental results can’t be reproduced.

The most common hurdle to knowing the minds of others: We don’t realize how egocentric we are.

The truth is that our children have never been safer. The diminishing marginal returns of parental anxiety.

Forget anxiety, overcaution, or just plain unhappiness. The real problem with parenting is philosophy.

The government’s hurry was likely driven by a desire to reassure tourists. Glossing over a Bangkok bombing.

Buzz Aldrin is plotting a 2039 Mars mission to colonize the planet.

Apple Music’s Halsey and the rise of the one-platform star.

Radiolab’s Robert Krulwich launches new blog—the first story starts with a biologist getting naked in a forest.

A Radiolab waiting to happen: deep-learning program learns to caption New Yorker cartoons—and will enter and try to win.

“For the first time ever, one billion people used Facebook in a single day.”

“For the most part, the scamming in sugar dating is mutual.” #longreads

Competing narratives about closing schools converge at once-great Jamaica High School in Queens, now shuttered.

“Love is not a game. Tinder is.”