Headlines from July 22, 2013

UK now requires ISPs to automatically block pornography, unless subscribers request otherwise.
Tumblr bans more search terms to curb porn on its iPhone app.
Pakistan struggles with polio epidemic, but anger over drones hampers prevention efforts.
The race speech Obama didn’t make: Detroit’s bankruptcy is the culmination of a century of misdeeds.
Detroit as failed state: still better off than Brazil and Kuwait, worse than Mongolia and Romania.
Related: Mark Binelli meets the motorcycle men working hard to save Detroit, one fiend at a time. #tmn
New technology can identify individual wild wolves—with 100% accuracy—based on their howls.
Lonely Planet’s glory days are a thing of the past…but the way it all happened makes it seem all the more sad.
Cooking is a language. What Claude Levi-Strauss can teach us about modern food fads.
Why we make healthier menu choices when we find out how long it takes to walk off the calories.
Mapping McDonald’s locations uncovers America’s commercial landscape, where convenience meets math.
The mathematical reality is that wealth is becoming more important, relative to income.
A high-end cellar that flooded during Sandy claims customers’ wines survived—but that may not be the case.
The Longform Guide to Crime Writing in Rolling Stone.
Bert Trautmann, captured Nazi paratrooper who became a Man City soccer legend, dies at 89. #obit
See also: A season’s look at a London soccer team whose soul had to be rebuilt from scratch. #tmn
Boston Bruins cordon off their logo to prevent Bieber from posing with it.
A sixth college football player joins the lawsuit against using their likenesses in video games without compensation.
The Hudson River is filled with raw sewage and is teeming with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
We wanted to move to a place where we could live a little better. An oral history of Maxwell’s.
Economists find former smokers earn more than smokers or those who have never smoked.
For parents, summer camp care packages are both a competition and a commodity retailers are happy to satisfy.
In China, rich adults will pay nearly $2,000 a month to drink breast milk regularly, while many infants receive only formula.
Migrating sand dunes in Tunisia threaten the film set of Anakin Skywalker’s home.
Finally, Adam Savage gets the perfect Admiral Ackbar costume—and it’s amazing.
How Hollywood transformed our view of orcas from vicious killers to Willys meant to be Free.
Five days before his father, the world’s most competitive man, unexpectedly died, Stephen Marche beat him at ping-pong.
You immediately slap, jump, run, and scream. For misophones, the tiniest of sounds can excruciate.
Britain’s First World War was a war of national survival, a defensive conflict fought at huge cost.
To all the weirdos and the oddballs, without you we would have no superheroes—please don’t ever change. #opinions
Bill Gates’s summer reading list. #books
We’ve seen them grow up in a lot of ways just as people. The couple behind Odd Future’s ascent. #longreads