Headlines from August 25, 2015

Tensions ease between Koreas—North “regrets” land-mine maimings; South to switch off loudspeakers.
Every time the stock market loses this much this quickly, a rebound follows.
A young investor in China: “I have no confidence with regards to the future of our capitalist market.”
“What if we reported on poverty the way we report on the stock market?”
Google’s predictive HR reaches out to prospective candidates based on their web searches.
Slack’s popularity is a symptom of America’s demand for a more private internet.
“Robotics and AI will change the way we work, but it won’t necessarily take away our work.”
Emptied by aging and the recession, recently abandoned, centuries-old Spanish villages hit the market.
In Tokyo, suburbs are turning to ghost towns as elderly die, the population contracts, and vacant homes simply sit there.
The confessions of a bibliophilic kleptomaniac. #longreads
Resourceful Detroiters fish from a sinkhole while they wait for the government to repair it.
Russia’s ambivalent relationship to the West, as told in the history of Russian cheese.
Mark Cohen’s close-up photographs of the Rust Belt in the ‘70s. #photography
Love and Rockets absorbed disparate influences—comics, punk rock, a Latino childhood—to create a genre-exploding classic.
Everyone from New Orleans remembers three moments from the last decade: Katrina, the Saints’ Super Bowl win, and when Gleason blocked that punt. #longreads
“Cars are going to change a lot in the next few decades.”
Help map America’s best/worst pun business names: e.g., A Shoe Grows in Brooklyn.
An interview with your mom who works a phone-sex line.
It’s just your customers leave with more than a smile. Profiles of phone-sex operators.