(#1) Remind me: What's the autumnal equinox? (+video) [Christian Science Monitor]
So while the autumnal equinox signals the coming of scarves, pumpkins, and hot drinks in the northern hemisphere, the southern hemisphere is celebrating the vernal or spring equinox and prepping for beach season. That's why this Google Doodle doesn't ...
(#2) Colts Off to 0-2 Start Thanks to Andrew Luck's Interceptions [New York Times]
Going into the season, most people had Andrew Luck of the Indianapolis Colts at the top of the pile among quarterbacks. He has been a Pro Bowl player in each of his three seasons, and was the consensus No. 1 pick at his position in fantasy football ...
(#3) Martin Shkreli: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know [Heavy.com]
A former hedge fund investor has become America's most hated man after he raised the price of an AIDS drug by over 5,000 percent. The financial whizz is Martin Shkreli, 32. The Albanian-American has raised the ire of people across the country after ...
(#4) Volkswagen's Chief in the Vortex of the Storm [New York Times]
Though it still manufactures the kind of practical cars for the masses that made Volkswagen famous, the company today also makes Porsche and Lamborghini sports cars, Bentley luxury cars and over-the-top Bugatti sports cars that sell for more than $1 ...
(#5) Skype issues mea culpa for outage, blames it on 'larger-than-usual ... [VentureBeat]
Skype has formally apologized for the worldwide outage users experienced on Monday. In a blog post, the company attributed the extended downtime to a “larger-than-usual” configuration change that resulted in users being disconnected. The disruption in ...
(#6) What Scott Walker Could Have Learned From George W. Bush [New York Times]
The Internet is not wanting for explanations of the flameout of Gov. Scott Walker's short and surprisingly anemic presidential campaign. Walker couldn't lock down the Republican Party's conservative base. His average-Joe persona was no match for the ...
(#7) 'Big Bang Theory': Penny and Leonard say 'I do' — now what? [CNN]
(The Hollywood Reporter) Following eight seasons of will-they-or-won't-they, Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Penny (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting) officially tied the knot during Monday's season-nine premiere of CBS' The Big Bang Theory. But the happily ever after ...
(#8) Gotham Red Band Trailer Puts the Dark in Dark Knight [ComingSoon.net]
With last night's season premiere setting Gotham season two in motion, the “Rise of the Villains” has begun. To get a look at where it will lead, FOX has just brought online a new Gotham Red Band trailer with lots of footage from next week's episode ...
(#9) Gluck: NASCAR got Chase drama it needed early [USA TODAY]
JOLIET, Ill. — There's a camera operator at NBC Sports who should get a raise this week — or at least a gift basket from NASCAR. From high above Chicagoland Speedway, somewhere on the roof of the scoring tower, the camera operator zoomed in on the ...
(#10) Saints, Drew Brees receive some good news on shoulder injury [FOXSports.com]
Originally, the concern was that Brees may have suffered a torn rotator cuff, which could obviously leave him out for an extended period of time. According to Ed Werder of ESPN though, Dr. James Andrews confirmed that Brees did not have a torn rotator ...
(#11) Pope Francis, in Washington, Addresses Poverty and Climate [New York Times]
WASHINGTON — Pope Francis quietly but forcefully made his priorities clear during his first full day in the United States on Wednesday, urging in a pair of speeches a renewed emphasis on tackling global poverty, confronting climate change, caring for ...
(#12) Woman disemboweled for saying ex's name during sex? [HLNtv.com]
A Florida man is accused of disemboweling and murdering his girlfriend after she said her ex-husband's name twice during sex, a police affidavit states. Fidel Lopez, 24, has been charged with murder for the Sunday death of 31-year-old Maria Nemeth.
(#13) The Dad Who Wrote a Check Using “Common Core” Math Doesn't Know What He's ... [Patheos (blog)]
Doug Herrmann, a father from Ohio, was frustrated that he couldn't help his second-grade son with his math homework last week. Even though it should have been easy, the curriculum his son was using didn't look familiar to him. It wasn't the way ...
(#14) Minority Report: The Precogs Are All Grown Up [Vulture]
First of all, I know. From the second the announcement dropped earlier this year, you, too, were probably more than a little apprehensive about the idea to turn Minority Report, the mind-bending, ironically prophetic Steven Spielberg/Tom Cruise film ...
(#15) Forensic artist put a face to the 'Baby Doe' tragedy [The Boston Globe]
The child's age and the mix of mystery and disgust around her death figured into that, as did the evidence that “Baby Doe” had been alive so recently, unlike skeletal remains that may be many years old. But there was no escaping the cherubic nature of ...
(#16) Someone Photoshopped Christina Ricci into Morticia Addams [Entertainment Weekly]
Christina Ricci may have starred in The Addams Family as Wednesday Addams more than 20 years ago, but in a new (Photoshopped) image floating around the Internet, she appears instead as the kooky but sexy matriarch of the family: Mortiica. The image ...
(#17) Ryan Fitzpatrick Gets Vote of Confidence From Jets Coach [New York Times]
The Jets' surprising 2-0 start appears to be going a long way toward helping Ryan Fitzpatrick supplant Geno Smith as the starting quarterback. “Ryan's our starting quarterback right now,” Coach Todd Bowles said Tuesday during a conference call. “We're ...
(#18) Soma will test your expectations about what horror stories can say [Ars Technica]
Soma is also built on expectation. Specifically, it defies assumptions about the kind of stories horror games usually tell. It even defies Frictional's own marketing as strictly a follow-up to The Dark Descent, though the two do have a lot in common ...
(#19) Pizza Rat is trending because we're all disgusting [Entertainment Weekly]
Ostensibly first made famous by whomsoever decides these things, the video features a rat (of phylum Chordata) carrying a piece of pizza (of genus So Bad For Me But Ugh I Love It) down the steep stairs of a New York City subway platform. “Live your ...
(#20) Empire's Ambiguous Take on the Social-Justice Movement [The Atlantic]
That's the first line of dialogue spoken in Empire season two, from the hip-hop producer Swizz Beatz to a crowd of thousands in Central Park. Is this a signal of new intentions for Empire, whose wildly popular first season was driven by murders and ...
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