The Morning News

The Rooster crows! It's finals week in the 2019 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes.

↩︎ TMN Newsletters 34m

"Grindr came along offering a much more direct route to sex with no real barriers. Why would people want to go to a club, pay a door entry fee, pay for drinks, when there might not even be anyone there they like?"

After 10 years of countless hook-ups, marriages, bullying, and violent crimes, Grindr struggles to still be a desirable platform.

↩︎ BBC News

43m

The correction fluid market—Wite-Out, Tipp-Ex, Liquid Paper—remains remarkably resilient, but no one really knows why.

↩︎ The Atlantic 50m

Rick Steves still travels obsessively, spreading the gospel of travel as a humanity-improvement engine.

↩︎ The New York TImes Magazine 1h

Overwhelming snow and flooding have set off a humanitarian disaster on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

↩︎ The New York TImes 1h

Despite a "devastating" Human Rights Watch report, IBM had no problem helping to build a surveillance system for Rodrigo Duterte.

↩︎ The Intercept 1h

A map shows the years that different nations around Africa gained their independence.

↩︎ Geopolitical Futures 1h

Sub-Saharan Africa is home to many of the world’s longest-ruling heads of state, but the trend may be reversing.

↩︎ Council on Foreign Relations 1h

Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire are the most stressed out states.

Facts learned from a hundred million messages received by the Crisis Text Line.

↩︎ Crisis Text Line

1h

"I took this as a sign that I should persevere." Jessica Francis Kane finds life lessons in overlooked trees.

↩︎ Flower Magazine 1h

Avuncular is most often used to describe the villainous father of a lesbian once employed by the Coors Brewing Company: Dick Cheney.

Myriam Gurba, writing in praise of the word “avuncular,” pays tribute to her uncle.

↩︎ The Paris Review

2h

Moving to stifle the left, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee bans hiring firms that work with primary challengers.

↩︎ National Journal 2d

The UK government announces it will miss nearly all of the environmental targets it set in 2010.

↩︎ The Guardian 2d

Collected local LA news footage of Depeche Mode fans in a frenzy over the release of Violator in 1990.

2d

Vasectomies in Spokane spike during March Madness, which provides an ideal time to do little else but recuperate on the couch.

↩︎ The Spokesman-Review 2d

The widow of a boxing enthusiast who collected and catalogued VHS tapes of around 55,000 matches needs to re-home the archive.

↩︎ The New York Times 2d

UK researchers want volunteers to digitize 19th-century handwritten weather reports that could help predict future weather events.

↩︎ Ars Technica 2d

"Children watching these unboxing videos establish a trust and believe anything they say. They want to be that girl on the screen; they believe them to be their friend and that they are showing them stuff as a friend."

On the questionable advertising ethics of toy-unboxing videos, whose target audience has no comprehension of sponcon.

↩︎ Vox

2d

The American Museum of Natural History annotated a diorama to show the historical inaccuracies and clichés depicted in the scene.

↩︎ The New York Times 2d