The Morning News

Driverless meets #vanlife in a new concept from automakers: the detachable, autonomous mobile living room.

“The Japanese taught the Americans and all the others how to catch tuna in commercial quantities, and they are the best fishermen in the game. As a result, the packers vie with each other in providing them with attractive quarters close to their respective plants.”

The history of the tuna sandwich is an all-American story—i.e., stocked with immigrants and racism.

↩︎ Taste

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"Numbers stations"—broadcasts that repeat numbers—are spy messages. You can find them, but you won't crack them.

↩︎ War on the Rocks 22h

"Found Sounds from the Edge of the Earth." Think ice cracking beneath Antarctica and Taiwanese frog songs.

↩︎ Bandcamp 22h

Fact-check: It's very much the FBI's "thing" to investigate something like Ford's claim against Kavanaugh.

↩︎ NBC News 23h

Pakistani officials release ex-Prime Minister Sharif from prison only two months into a 10-year corruption sentence.

↩︎ Reuters 23h

A timeline of Russia's hacking of the 2016 election and Trump's insistence that it's all a hoax.

↩︎ The New York Times 1d

When British Prime Minister Theresa May told Trump by phone that British authorities were 95 percent sure that Moscow was responsible, Trump replied, “Maybe we should get to 98 percent.”

An excerpt from The Apprentice, a narrative history of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

↩︎ The Washington Post

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The $100 bill is the most popular US bill in circulation. Ten years ago, it was less common than the $20 or the $1.

↩︎ Quartz 1d

A Texas mayor, also a great-grandmother, shot and killed the 12-foot alligator that ate her miniature horse.

↩︎ The Houston Chronicle 1d

Trump's Treasury Dept. is reversing plans to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. A stamp can fix that.

via WIRED

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As video games become more beautiful, can a big-budget narrative game be made without violence?

↩︎ The Guardian 1d

A very funny discussion of the 10 best paintings depicting “Judith Beheading Holofernes.”

↩︎ Current Affairs 1d

In Kongthong, a remote Indian village, everyone receives a melody from their mother to be used instead of a name.

↩︎ France24 1d

Industrial designer Nicole Hone creates plants of the future called "hydrophytes,"multi-material, 3D-printed aquatic lifeforms that come alive when pumped with air.

Via designboom.

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Technology used to develop driverless cars is being deployed for border control in rural Texas.

↩︎ The New York Times 1d

If customers request, a Maine chef will get lobsters baked before boiling them, for a "kinder passage" into death.

↩︎ Fox News 1d

A collection of landscapes by legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser.

↩︎ This Isn't Happiness 1d

No one in Yemen is consistently perceived as legitimate across all cross-sections of society. And Al Qaeda and Marebi sheikhs aside, no one seems to be all of that interested in earning their legitimacy.

What the West got wrong about Yemen’s political upheaval.

↩︎ The New Republic

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Ceasing biannual time changes, the EU will let each member country choose whether to stay on summer or winter time.

↩︎ Deutsche Welle 1d