April 15, 2016
- UK begins its official campaign over an EU exit, preparing for the "Brexit" referendum on June 23.
- The average "democracy score" of 29 formerly Communist countries in Eurasia has declined every year since 2004.
- Czech Republic may change its name to Czechia (CHECK-iya), which even its ministers can't pronounce.
- The cost of preserving Lenin’s body: $200,000 a year.
- Hong Kong owner of world's cheapest Michelin-starred restaurant to open a branch in New York.
- Advice given to Japanese travelers in the US.
- Total wealth of China's female billionaires is twice as much as the rest of the world's combined.
- Average American men cry more often than average Chinese women.
- Second report confirms Clinton campaign’s use of a “static noise machine” outside a fundraising event.
- Analysis of 70m comments left on the Guardian's site since 2006: of the 10 most abused writers, eight are women, and the men are black.
- Black students are three times more likely than white students to be suspended or expelled from US schools.
- “Campus carry” laws may enable more suicides, researchers find.
- Canadian PM Trudeau introduces bill that would legalize assisted suicide.
- Prosecutors around the US says anti-Muslim threats on the rise.
- Over three seasons as a guard, Jeremy Lin got the most fouls without a flagrant being called—and the fans have noticed.
- Marti Leimbach on growing up privileged or not.
- Kim McLarin on the two times in her life that she's sought revenge.
- Color guard team collaborates with Ira Glass and Nico Muhly.
- Artist colorfully arranges garbage that was found on British beaches.
- Sharp increase in oil production means oil tankers park in docks for weeks, waiting their turn to unload.
- Former bondage film actress wages legal combat over the riches of her husband’s Sea Monkey empire.
- Today’s fantastic Silicon Valley rumor involves Jack Dorsey’s beard clippings and Azealia Banks’s witchcraft.
- Your lazy weekend read: the New Yorker's Alex Ross on plagiarism (or not) in Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven."