Headlines from August 18, 2014

Following Sunday’s violence between police and protestors in Ferguson, Missouri governor calls in the National Guard.
Last night, Ferguson police ordered the media to “get the fuck out of here,” and threatened to shoot them. #video
Ferguson’s divisions, like those of Missouri, began during the Civil War and remain in place today.
I had to come to Ferguson. Not as a journalist, but as a black man fed up with the idea of black boys who are unable to become black men.
Teen siblings create an app to help monitor police behavior.
A combination of poverty and racial and social stigmas has made Louisiana a “hotbed” for HIV. #health
New Orleans is building a hurricane-proof hospital, dock included.
A couple in Tehran turns a taxi into a mobile reading room.
Extensive primer on the Islamic State’s history and goals in Iraq and Syria.
Man with 453 piercings—the most in the world—is banned from entering Dubai because they fear he practices “black magic.”
Every night, in front of millions of people, he has to do the salto mortale. The New Yorker‘s 1978 Johnny Carson profile. #longreads
A secret history of hidden album tracks—they survived CDs and made it to digital, sometimes inelegantly.
Maura Johnston deciphers the Song of the Summer—each year’s appointee isn’t always apparent. #music
Because summer: New York restaurant serves a family-style “Kitchen Sink” sundae, with 16 scoops, for $100.
We eat a lot of veggies, we buy a lot of veggies, and sometimes we get ahead of ourselves. Michael Erard tracks his family’s garbage.