MUST-READ: A former AP correspondent explains how and why reporters get Israel so wrong, and why it matters.

WHY do we love the music we heard as teenagers?

CLAY SHIRKY on the end of the printed newspaper.

SEE? WE DIDN'T DO IT: Seals, not Spaniards, first brought TB to Americas.

SPEAKING OF ISIS, this is the full text of the last email they sent to James Foley's family.

GOOD: That ISIS guy who promised to raise Islamic State flag over the White House? He’s dead.

WHAT A WELL-WRITTEN PIECE by Charlie Martin: “Depression Is No Joke; Pushing back against the fools who don't have the faintest notion of what real depression is.”

HMMMM: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet.

I HVAE NO IDEA: Why It’s So Hard to Catch Your Own Typos.

CHINA'S long history of harvesting organs from living political foes.

BBC: Caution needed with Gaza casualty figures.

WHAT?? 94% of Academic Economists Admit to Unacceptable Research Practices, Including Sex for Co-authorship and Promotion.

ISIS Exterminating Minorities in Iraq. True, you can't submit a terrorist group and the army of a democratic country to the same moral standards, but for a change I'd like to see here just a tiny bit of the indignation by Europeans than the one towards what's been happening in Gaza.

IT IS… NASA Probes Record Sounds In Space – And It’s Terrifying.

11 COMPANIES that shaped the modern world.

WILL YOU LOSE YOUR JOB TO A ROBOT? Silicon Valley is split.

THIS IS FANTASTIC…: “A Russian crime ring has amassed the largest known collection of stolen Internet credentials, including 1.2 billion user name and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses, security researchers say.”

THE MONTBLANC seeen from an eagle-mounted camera:

AT LAST some non-alarmist information on the danger posed by ebola.

WHAT YOU WON'T SEE in the Spanish media: “Hamas murder campaign in Gaza exposed: Islamist regime has killed dozens and tortured others as 'collaborators' with Israel in war's aftermath, Amnesty and Guardian sources say.”

UPDATE. 40 questions for the international media in Gaza.

7 THINGS TO CONSIDER Before Choosing Sides in the Middle East Conflict.

AMAZING: How one man's lies almost destroyed the comics industry.