The Morning News

Jean Anouilh (~ahn’oo-ee). Diane Arbus (dee-ann). Hannah Arendt (hahn-ah ahr-ent). Martha Argerich (mar-tah herr-each)

From 2015, “a list of shibboleth names by which the privileged judge their inferiors.”

↩︎ Lazenby

20h

A riveting podcast about boundaries, consent, and sex: Kaitlin Prest's "no" season for The Heart.

↩︎ The Heart Radio 20h

In two-thirds of accidents, self-driving cars get rear-ended—possibly because humans expect other humans to break traffic rules.

↩︎ WIRED 22h

Since mid-2014, capital flight from China may be as high as $800 billion. Vancouver, long a recipient, is trying to stop the flow.

↩︎ Bloomberg Businessweek 22h

David R. Chan has eaten at more than 7,300 Chinese restaurants for the sake of keeping a list (he doesn't really like food).

↩︎ The South China Morning Post Magazine 22h

America's largest county government (LA county) paid over $36 million to resolve sexual misconduct claims from 2004-2017.

↩︎ LAist 22h

A handful of reasons on why you should be wary of court-packing specifically and Constitutional hardball generally.

↩︎ Five Points by Matt Glassman 22h

It’s the nature of constitutional hardball that when one party does it, the other party fights back in an ever-accelerating spiral. Whether this would justify Democratic court-packing is an interesting question.

Raising the number of justices on the Supreme Court is absolutely legal. But history suggests it won’t change anytime soon.

↩︎ Bloomberg

22h

Here is the world’s only "scientifically documented, comprehensive database of all known shark attacks."

↩︎ The International Shark Attack File 22h

About 80% of tech firms in China have at least one female executive. In the US the figure is 54% and in the UK 53%.

↩︎ The London Review of Books 23h

To focus on corruption misses something important about the forces that have brought us to this point... The subways were not built for people like you and me. They were built for people like J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, and Elbert Gary of US Steel.

New York City subway wasn’t designed for its citizens. It was designed—and is still maintained—for profit.

↩︎ Commune

23h

Over 40,000 London properties are owned by overseas firms, many of them registered in the Virgin Islands (for money laundering).

↩︎ The Economist 23h

Kudzu, refineries, motels, and cars. Scenes from the Ogden Museum's "New Southern Photography."

↩︎ The Bitter Southerner 23h

A brief explanation of “post-Salafi,” an emerging, amorphous category of Muslim thought derived partly from Wahhabism.

↩︎ Maydan 23h

In isopolyphonic Albanian folk singing, ultra-rare voices that can mimic goat's bells are the most prized.

↩︎ Calvert Journal 23h

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister appoints women to half of his government’s ministerial posts, saying they are "less corrupt."

↩︎ Face2Face Africa 23h

Trans men and women exist. Genderqueer people exist. We have been part of this country for hundreds of years—since before the Revolution, in fact. Redefining us won’t make us go away.

Jennifer Finney Boylan responds to the White House’s plan to define a person’s sex as unchangeable, determined by the genitals.

↩︎ The New York Times

23h

"I’m in a constant state of anger.” James Baldwin gets invoked to justify a rough play in Sunday's Panthers-Eagles game.

↩︎ The Associated Press 23h

↩︎ This Isn't Happiness 3d

Despite all my years of studying brain disorders, for the first time in my life I realize how profoundly unsettling it is to have a brain that does not function.

After brain cancer affected her behavior, a neuroscientist comprehends mental illness in new ways.

↩︎ Quartz

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