April 20, 2016
By The Morning News
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- After Clinton and Trump win New York, the media praises Trump’s new “presidential” tone.
- Scholars and political junkies wonder if The Donald could be impeached as soon as he takes office.
- Indiana becomes Cruz’s top priority: a chance to end Trump's hopes of entering Cleveland with 1,237 delegates.
- The dirty secret of violent surf localism: it works.
- See also: Guardian reporter harassed away from surfing at California's feared Lunada Bay.
- South Korea has yet to acknowledge its abuse of thousands of homeless people rounded up before the 1988 Olympics.
- Black Lives Matter was born on Twitter. Will it die there?
- Treasury Department may soon suspend the penny—likely angering the zinc industry (pennies are 98% zinc).
- Forty-eight percent of people who buy vinyl records don't listen to them; 7% don't even own a turntable.
- A happy marriage in the digital era begins with an invitation to listen to a record.
- Professors propose applying the “slow movement” to academic work, to combat "time stress."
- Workers over 40 perform best if they work three days a week, according to economic researchers.
- Zizek: Panama Papers mean “we can no longer pretend we don’t know” that the rich live by different rules.
- The depth of America’s personal debt crisis is obscured by silence, enabled by shame.
- Swiss branding agency charges $29,000 to name your baby.
- Fight for marijuana legalization stalled in New England due to the opiate crisis.
- Military psychologists use mandatory treatment to help members of the special forces.
- “Crunch,” or emergency unpaid overtime, is crushing game developers, who are told to grin and bear it.
- New twist on platform ethics: bike racing app Strava has a steroid scandal.
- Florida startup quietly engineers augmented-reality tech that may someday replace desktop displays.
- Word processing’s roots in gender have receded, but not disappeared, since the days when literary wives took dictation.
- Reality show crew saves actual castaway on a deserted island.
- Forgotten detail about Elvis: He loved racquetball so much, he had a palatial court built at Graceland.
