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API CRACKDOWN

'Twitter Killed My Business'

gigaom.com

An inside look at the ecosystem crackdown.

ROBOTS

An Uncertain Robot Makes For A Surprisingly Good Teacher

newscientist.com

THE best way to learn is to teach. That old maxim has been put to the test by a classroom robot that helps Japanese children learn English.

SPACE

Space Tourism Is Here, Wealthy Adventurers Wanted

nytimes.com

Virgin Galactic may be aloft as soon as next year, just one among a handful of companies competing to take amateur astronauts to the upper reaches of the atmosphere — and beyond.

OOPS

Wells Fargo Forecloses On Wrong House, Destroys Elderly Couple's Lifetime Home

losangeles.cbslocal.com

A crew broke into Alvin and Pat Tjosaas’ desert home and took everything after being directed by Wells Fargo to secure the structure. The couple, however, didn’t have a mortgage on the home.

ASTRONOMY

Meet The Astronomy Photographer Of The Year Nominees

guardian.co.uk

This year's Astronomy Photographer of the Year, run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in association with Sky at Night Magazine, received a record number of entries from amateurs and professional photographers from around the globe.

SEXISM

Thank God Someone Finally Stepped In And Explained The Internet To Women

theatlantic.com

Women: Have you been struggling to use a computer? And forget about the Internet -- too hard. Good news: a series of books will help, you just need to speak French.

BECAUSE PUTIN

Vladimir Putin Muses On The Benefits Of Group Sex

telegraph.co.uk

President Vladimir Putin of Russia has mused that group sex is better than one-on-one intercourse because participants can take a break.

STAN IS SUPER POPULAR

Why Do So Many Countries End In '-Stan'?

mentalfloss.com

Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp? Who put the -stan in Afghanistan? I don’t know about the former, but we can thank the Proto-Indo-Europeans for the latter.

NO DANCING IN THE POOL

Lifeguards Fired Over ‘Gangnam Style’ Video Remake

losangeles.cbslocal.com

What was supposed to be a fun, cheeky remake of a Korean pop music video that’s gone viral has gotten more than a dozen El Monte city lifeguards fired.

APPLE

Students Claim They Were Forced To Work On New iPhone

shanghaidaily.com

Thousands of students in an east China city are being forced to work at a Foxconn plant after classes were suspended at the beginning of the new semester, it has been revealed.

INFOGRAPHIC

The Environmental Impact Of Wasted Food

fastcoexist.com

Here's what happens when you throw away your food.

AAAHH!!! REAL MONSTERS

Brain Parasites, California’s Hidden Health Problem

blogs.scientificamerican.com

Sara Alvarez was afraid. The doctors told her she needed surgery — brain surgery. Operations on such a complex organ are never simple, but this procedure was exceptionally difficult.

EDUCATION

California Spends More On Jails Than Higher Education

thinkprogress.org

As California struggles to comply with a court order to reduce its prison population, a new study finds that the state now spends more on its correctional system than on higher education.

CASH MONEY

Google Shares Above $700. Again.

allthingsd.com

The week of September 3 was a good one for Google. The company’s shares closed it out at a price they’ve not seen in years — four years, to be exact.

WE PREFER 'OBSESSION' TO 'ADDICTION'

Why We All Have 'Internet-Addiction Genes'

theatlantic.com

A gene that seems to be (very modestly) correlated with internet addiction also plays a role in nicotine addiction, suggesting a chemical correlation.