Today’s Sterling Report looks behind the headlines: an Ebola outbreak moving through central Africa, the human cost of AI automation, villagers helping bring back India’s giant tortoise, SpaceX’s Starship V3 test, hard questions in Washington, a San Diego security guard who protected children, wildfire evacuations near Simi Valley, an old physics mystery, ancient games of chance, modern heirlooms, and one rancher opening the gate to let the tide return.