Headlines from November 13, 2014

House and Senate to vote on Keystone XL pipeline, with pols on both sides lining up to endorse it.
She is the closest we have to a human decoder ring. The Valerie Jarrett profile everyone in DC is reading.
Doctors Without Borders to host experimental Ebola treatments in West Africa.
China fails to trumpet the big climate change deal, possibly because it can clean the air for foreign dignitaries, but not its people.
US companies now keep more money overseas—$2 trillion—than they hold domestically.
Round-up of advice from Western, English-speaking Islamic State militants to other would-be jihadists.
Police killed 461 felony suspects in the past year, the highest number in two decades.
Arms makers now developing weapons that “rely on artificial intelligence, not human instruction, to decide what to target and whom to kill.”
LeBron tells ESPN that his children are only allowed to play basketball, baseball, and soccer—no football.
Japanese “Muscle Suit,” enabling wearers to pick things up with a third of the effort, now on sale for $5,190.
Brief histories of failed technologies, from the longbow to the decorative helmet.
Google acquires an airport with its own private golf course.
I frequently wonder how my race and gender are coloring perceptions of me. Life as a black woman technologist at Google.
See also: “Black Girls Don’t Read Sylvia Plath.”
Abused alone as children, women join to face the religious Louisiana girls’ school that failed them.
German city of Dortmund urged to pursue gender equality among its traffic lights.
Controversial, prolific Wikipedia sex illustrator retires with anonymity intact, legacy in question. #nsfw
Round-up of the ongoing, still continuing, frequently thrilling and wacky captioned adventures of George Washington.