Headlines from September 30, 2014

US bankruptcy judge has allowed Detroit to continue shutting off water for some of its residents.
Although the Sixth Amendment guarantees “the right to a speedy and public trial,” in the Bronx the concept of speedy justice barely exists. #longreads
Seventy-five percent of all worldwide migrant deaths in the past year occurred in the Mediterranean Sea.
After two weeks of playing typewriter sounds in the newsroom to create excitement, the Times of London ends its experiment.
Coffee, now a source of common cultural identity, was once considered brutal enough to lay waste to “beautiful stomach linings as a wagon master abuses ponies.”
The supermarket apple you’re about to eat was picked a year ago, sprayed with chemicals, and deposited into cold storage.
Cyranoids—people whose speech is controlled by someone else—can reveal whether appearance or content matters more in human interaction. #science
Social network Ello—the ad-free Facebook alternative—receives up to 31,000 requests to join per hour.
He had seen that his housekeeper was a person. And he couldn’t believe it. #working
Cameron’s raw deal: British youth must choose between university debt or woeful wages.
Everyday is like Monday. Morrissey gets a job. #comics
Billboard crunches the numbers, says Amazon, not Urban Outfitters, is the top vinyl seller.
The audience makes it a good time through sheer force of will. At the world premiere of The Neighbors, Tommy Wiseau’s followup to cult favorite The Room.
Over the past 40 years, Earth lost half its wildlife.
Unlike its parks, New York City’s vacant lots have their own ecologies, offering a glimpse of natural-like wildness.