Computing: National Public Radio says that Facebook won't let you have an account, if you are 100 or older, and give your real age.
Humor: (or something) NPR reports on corn-picking contests. No machinery, just the person.
Politics: (sort of) NPR reports on the reluctance to accept that Ebola is not an air-borne virus.
Relevant reports that, if you have $3,650, or more, after debt is figured in, you have more money than half of the people on earth. (That's $10 a day, by the way.)
Science: NPR reports that we might have been better off living in villages with about 150 people, than living with the type and number of social interactions that most of us have.
Wired reports on new techniques to determine if there really is awareness in a person in a coma, or an apparent persistent vegetative state. Apparently, sometimes, there is.
Sports: from USA Today, and other media: Lauren Hill, college freshman basketball player, hopes to enter her first game on November 2, provided she hasn't been incapacitated completely by an inoperable brain tumor by that time. There are videos of this, from CBS, and ABC.
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