April 16, 2015
- Con men swindle South Indian migrants who come to the Gulf for the promised land and find only cruel employment.
- Four hundred feared drowned as another boat capsizes with North African immigrants heading to Italy.
- Shell Gulf spill ate away mangroves that held an island ecosystem together, so it doesn't exist anymore.
- Ghana has plenty of water, but a constellation of development errors have made it scarce.
- "At $229 billion [a year], the toll from gun violence would have been $47 billion more than Apple's 2014 worldwide revenue."
- San Jose as a primer on how suburban growth is driven by short-term gain at considerable long-term expense.
- 60,000 Americans walked out for higher minimum wage yesterday as SEIU-led campaign expands support beyond fast food workers.
- Of fast-food workers, 52% are on some form of public assistance; for adjunct professors, it's 25%.
- "A number of vets return to their former battlefields each year, driven by questions about a war that ended only in name."
- New Orleans bars brace for next week's smoking ban.
- California's Dept. of Public Health will declare its measles outbreak over on Friday, if no new cases emerge.
- "Can we find real intimacy [on the internet] amid shifting identities and permanent surveillance?"
- How post-apocalyptic humans could reboot society if all the fossil fuels are depleted.
- Quick n' easy recipes in 2087.
- "ASMR [may be] brought about by obtaining a flowlike state...facilitated by witnessing others in such a state."
- A young Venn heads to the diagram convention.
- Director David Chase's loving, shot-by-shot explanation of the last scene of The Sopranos.
- "Japanese karaoke game show distracts contestants with hand jobs."