April 3, 2015

• Half a million children are suffering the psychological damage of growing up in war-torn Ukraine.
• Jeb Bush vacillates on Indiana RFRA only two outrage-filled days after he supported it.
• Most of our water footprints are spent making the food we consume—one liter of coffee takes 1,120 liters of water.
• Megan McArdle: Reset the artificially low cost of water, and we'll waste less of it.
• In San Francisco, where apartments are at a premium and fires are unusually high, some suspect landlords of arson.
• A hand-drawn, photocopied flier was 4/20's patient zero, and helped spawn worldwide consciousness of a magic number.
• California's early-childhood services, which rely on tobacco tax revenues, decline as more  people quit smoking.
• Venture capital's money and myths are producing more bloat than good.
• Airbnb opens for business in Cuba.
• According to Reddit, the most-disbelieved real news story on April Fool's Day was a massive underground fire in London.
• "Drinking the Kool-Aid" wasn't about joining a cult—it was about joining a revolution too radical for the public to digest.
• An extended air-hockey metaphor explains the snowballing anger at Trevor Noah's tweets.
• Workplace sexism you can't prove in court.
• David Bowie is co-writing a stage show based on Thomas Newton, his character from The Man Who Fell to Earth.
• On the Dash Button: "Other than coffee, Amazon appears to be steering clear of offering addictive products."
• The art of goysplaining.