Here’s what I’m reading up on this morning: 

• At least 14 people are dead following Kurdish protests in Turkey urging the nation to fight against Islamic State’s hold on the nearby city of Kobane, Syria.

• Activists and residents say Myanmar has blocked of an entire Muslim region in a move to cast local residents as Bangladeshi undocumented immigrants. 

• Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan’s condition may be improving; he’s on a ventilator and receiving kidney dialysis. Ashoka Mukpo, meanwhile, will receive a blood transfusion from Ebola survivor Eric Brantly. 

• The World Bank warns that the spread of Ebola in West Africa could be devastatingly costly. 

• The Supreme Court will hear a case today about whether Amazon’s warehouse workers should be paid for the approximately two-and-a-half weeks they spend waiting in a security line each week. 

• Wal-Mart is ending healthcare coverage for the fraction of part-time employees that currently have it; it’s also raising its premiums in 2015 across the board. 

• Thync has raised $13 million toward creating a wearable app that, through electrical stimulation, can change your state of mind. 

• "The Walking Dead" Season 5 kicks off this Sunday–and Season 6 is already on lock. 

• The Nobel for chemistry goes to three scientists for building a better microscope with which to observe life at the molecular level.  

• Did you catch the blood moon eclipse last night? There are pretty wonderful photographs.