Headlines from April 16, 2015

Con men swindle South Indian migrants who come to the Gulf for the promised land and find only cruel employment.
Four hundred feared drowned as another boat capsizes with North African immigrants heading to Italy.
Shell Gulf spill ate away mangroves that held an island ecosystem together, so it doesn’t exist anymore. #video
Ghana has plenty of water, but a constellation of development errors have made it scarce. #longreads
“At $229 billion [a year], the toll from gun violence would have been $47 billion more than Apple’s 2014 worldwide revenue.” via
San Jose as a primer on how suburban growth is driven by short-term gain at considerable long-term expense.
60,000 Americans walked out for higher minimum wage yesterday as SEIU-led campaign expands support beyond fast food workers.
Of fast-food workers, 52% are on some form of public assistance; for adjunct professors, it’s 25%.
“A number of vets return to their former battlefields each year, driven by questions about a war that ended only in name.”
My bar gets busy from 2 in the morning until 7 or 8 in the morning. New Orleans bars brace for next week’s smoking ban.
California’s Dept. of Public Health will declare its measles outbreak over on Friday, if no new cases emerge.
“Can we find real intimacy [on the internet] amid shifting identities and permanent surveillance?” #longreads
How post-apocalyptic humans could reboot society if all the fossil fuels are depleted.
Collect the run-off from any nearby sludge well. Quick n’ easy recipes in 2087.
“ASMR [may be] brought about by obtaining a flowlike state…facilitated by witnessing others in such a state.”
One man, a young diagrammer, tiny amidst the giants of diagrams. A young Venn heads to the diagram convention.
Director David Chase’s loving, shot-by-shot explanation of the last scene of The Sopranos.
“Japanese karaoke game show distracts contestants with hand jobs.” #nsfw