April 6, 2015

• Flamboyant foreign jihadists star for ISIS—but muscle, discipline, and strategy comes from Saddam's old network.
• From Garissa to 1962, when Kenya refused to let northeast corner of the country join Somalia.
• Iranians joke about the nuclear deal.
• Weeks after Gov. Brownback signed education cutback, some Kansas schools announce they will close up to 12 days early.
• Recasting the debate about Pope's statements on inequality.
• After two years of upgrades, the Large Hadron Collider is on again—it will take two months to reach adequate speeds.
• The CJR peels apart the error after error Rolling Stone made in reporting its campus rape story.
• Drug-resistant shigella appears to have entrenched itself in America.
• Our power plants remain vulnerable to malware—history shows software attacks cause real damage in the physical world.
• Two-year delay of massive Energy East pipeline undermines arguments that America will miss out if it doesn't build Keystone.
• A new website for research scientists applies TripAdvisor-like methodology to reviews of scientific journals.
• If other livable planets are like Earth, extraterrestrials are giants, according to a new paper.
• NCAA basketball revenue-sharing arrangement benefits weak teams in strong conferences.
• The University of Kentucky's loss on Saturday will cost the school $1.5 million in royalties on unsold merchandise.
• A tour of entrepreneurial parking and concessions near Wrigley Field.
• [Ruin porn]...dramatizes spaces but never seeks out the people that inhabit and transform them.
• Radiolab: "How a group of '80s Cuban misfits found rock-and-roll and created a revolution within a revolution."