The Morning News

It's March! It's madness! It's the 2019 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes!

For patients and providers, electronic health records are a panacea; however, shoddy implementations are resulting in deaths.

↩︎ Kaiser Health News 4h

As coyotes enter urban areas, researchers study scat to find out how the animals are surviving in inhospitable environments.

↩︎ Atlas Obscura 4h

How tennis player Maria Patrascu is fighting new rules that would make it harder for those in tennis's minor leagues to go pro.

↩︎ The New York Times 4h

Myspace finally admits it lost all the music that users uploaded between 2003 and 2015—and doesn't have a backup.

↩︎ Boing Boing 4h

Huddling behind a concrete barrier will not hold the world at bay when more and more of that world can afford a plane ticket. If Americans want to shape their own national destiny, rather than have it shaped by others, they have decisions to make now.

The anti-immigration movement in American politics absolutely threatens the future prospects of the US.

↩︎ The Atlantic

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Two minutes of subjecting a pair of light-up googly eyes to various phobias.

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Sufferers of misophonia are driven to intense rage or fear by certain sounds, often made from the mouth, such as gum-chewing.

↩︎ NPR 9h

The US government and others—without consent—test facial recognition using photos of immigrants, abused children, and the dead.

↩︎ Slate 9h

A map of the annual probability in 2070 of heat waves above the limit of human survivability in the continental United States.

↩︎ Reddit 10h

Surf-rock legend Dick Dale toured most of his life to pay his medical bills—all the way until his death on Saturday at 81.

↩︎ The Washington Post 10h

Dismayed by political barriers to popular policies, 2020 Dems eye structural reforms to the judiciary, filibuster, and more.

↩︎ NBC News 11h

↩︎ TMN Newsletters 2d

One Silicon Valley guru's next start-up: A church to escape the simulation. (21st-century cults are going to get really weird.)

↩︎ The Verge 3d

Soon to be falling out of a patch of sky near you: a $380,000 vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft called the "Speeder," aka, the world's first flying motorcycle.

The speeds and heights may sound far-fetched, but company officials say they’re already testing a one-third scale prototype. The plan, they say, is to roll out 20 full-size Speeders ready for customers next year.

Also:

For those bold enough to ride one, the aircraft comes standard with a safety strap.

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Testing a language AI finds that it might be good at detecting its own output, but not the output of others.

↩︎ AI Weirdness 3d

In case you haven't seen it: a video shows racks of phones generating fake engagement inside a "click farm."

↩︎ Jamie Bartlett / Twitter 3d

"Painless labor." An interview with obstetricians on why "birth tourists" come to the US from China.

↩︎ Marketplace 3d

Hader said, “The Russian writers were fascinated by people who kept moving toward being unhappy, despite their intentions. And I do feel like there’s a huge balance thing going on in the universe. My happiness level has gone up, ‘Barry’ is a giant success, and I finally get to direct. But I get divorced.”

A very good, thorough profile of Bill Hader by Tad Friend.

↩︎ The New Yorker

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YouTube is rolling out “information panels” when people search for topics that are “prone to misinformation.”

↩︎ BuzzFeed News 3d