The Morning News

All of a sudden, the #MeToo movement has "turned into yet another opportunity for men to talk about themselves."

↩︎ Quartz 13h

The world's billionaires have long known global warming is real—and they've long profited from the industries that got us here.

↩︎ GQ 13h

Based on a rollup of climate studies, the projected effects if global temperatures warm from one to four degrees.

↩︎ CarbonBrief 13h

"The DNA of nearly every American of Northern European descent...will be identifiable through cousins in GEDmatch’s database."

↩︎ The New York Times 13h

When companies surveil workers, workers feel justified in breaking the rules, and companies feel justified in surveilling them.

↩︎ The Atlantic 13h

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↩︎ TMN Membership 13h

A beginner's guide to human echolocation.

↩︎ Atlas Obscura 13h

"I had an encounter with a Native American on a Mexican rural highway. It was a woman, who was Native American, who wants to drink, driving the wrong way on the highway, struck a car driven by my son, and killed the passenger in the car."

On the retirement of the Cleveland Indians’ racist logo, a look back at how the team owner defended the logo 18 years ago.

↩︎ cleveland.com

16h

From 2008 to 2016, baseball umpires ejected more nonwhite than white players. (Ejections were more equitable in 2017.)

↩︎ The Hardball Times 17h

Fewer than 13% of the immigrant teens at the El Paso detention center have met with legal representatives.

↩︎ BuzzFeed 17h

Breaking with other corporations' data breach responses, Facebook won't provide identity fraud protection to hacked users.

↩︎ BBC 17h

A tour of the rooms where famous writers wrote famous books.

↩︎ Literary Hub 17h

Newly discovered documents from the 1960s show MI5 wouldn't trust black people with government secrets, based on race alone.

↩︎ The Guardian 18h

Assad's widespread use of chemical weapons—which he denies—is the reason he's close to winning Syria's civil war.

↩︎ BBC 18h

There will be a race of self-designing beings who are improving themselves at an ever-increasing rate. If the human race manages to redesign itself, it will probably spread out and colonize other planets and stars.

Among his final writings, Stephen Hawking predicted a future where non-gene-edited humans die out.

↩︎ Quartz

19h

Trump lies, denies offering a $1 million charity donation if Elizabeth Warren proved her Native American heritage—which she has.

↩︎ Boing Boing 19h

The casualties of Waterloo survived in the mouths of rich people, who prized dentures made from dead soldiers' teeth.

↩︎ Retropod 3d

Climate change is now the only issue that matters. As the American midterms loom, candidates are failing to devise solutions.

↩︎ The Outline 3d

Even within the company, Breitbart is a ghost. "During my time at Breitbart," says Kurt Bardella, a former spokesman, "I never heard of her, or spoke to her, or heard anyone else speak about her."

The owner of Breitbart is a Little League mom in Venice, Calif., who refuses all interviews.

↩︎ The Hollywood Reporter

3d

Indifference is not the full story of Rwanda's genocide. In fact, it's a story "about the failure of actions taken.”

↩︎ War on the Rocks 3d