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The Morning News
The 2018 VIDA Count—measuring literary publications' gender diversity—is out. The New York Review of Books has work to do.
↩︎ VIDA 31m
Journalists are using an anonymous Google Doc to share the details of their (by and large, low) salaries.
↩︎ Columbia Journalism Review 33m
A visit to the outdoor "body farms" where decomposing corpses help train researchers and law enforcement in forensics.
↩︎ Undark 34m

US maps of light pollution adjusted to show where outsized amounts of light exist per person.

37m

An art installation depicts a single discarded cigarette butt's environmental effects per minute.

57m
The Supreme Court rules a survivor and relatives of Sandy Hook victims can sue the manufacturer of the weapon used in the murders.
↩︎ POLITICO 59m
According to the FBI, violent hate crimes have reached a 16-year high. Advocacy groups say the actual number is even higher.
↩︎ BuzzFeed News 1h

Night after night, an audience followed twists and watched political celebrities and antiheroes be born... They showered PBS with donations, cards and letters. Wrote one viewer, “I arrive red-eyed and sleepy to work now and don’t care.”

Remembering the 15 weeks of public TV coverage of the Watergate Senate hearings from 1973.
↩︎ The New York Times
1h
“This is an evil I haven’t faced before.” Doctors provide disturbing descriptions of the lungs of vaping illness patients.
↩︎ VICE 1h
Pneumonic plague, which is more contagious than bubonic plague, has been diagnosed in two Beijing patients.
↩︎ The Guardian 1h
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↩︎ TMN Member Store 1h
Iowa courts hired hackers to test their systems. Now the hackers face robbery charges, despite bona fides.
↩︎ The Washington Post 1h
Wallpaper patterns with images of security cameras, by Dan Funderburgh.
↩︎ This Isn't Happiness 7h
Strange—and real—job titles matched with what they really do, from Phone Whisperer (cold caller) to Jedi Knight (product manager).
↩︎ The Hustle 7h
In a first, astronomers have recorded a star being flung out of the Milky Way by a supermassive black hole.
↩︎ The Guardian 7h
An analysis of the closed-door impeachment inquiry transcripts shows Republicans' involvement was nearly equal to Democrats'.
↩︎ The Washington Post 7h
Some South Korean academics are naming their teenage children as research co-authors—perhaps to improve their college chances.
↩︎ Nature 7h
The shortest buildings in Manhattan, photographed by Adam Friedberg.
↩︎ Atlas Obscura 7h
A federal court has ruled that suspicionless searches of travelers' electronic devices at US ports of entry is unconstitutional.
↩︎ Electronic Frontier Foundation 7h
The number of migrant children held in US government custody has increased by 42% over the past year.
↩︎ The Associated Press 7h