August 11, 2015
- Video of the Day, Ash Koosha, "I Feel That."
- Robots are learning to play jazz—which is great—so they can improvise on the battlefield. Which is, well.
- Robert Gagno is Canada's pinball champion. He also has autism.
- Ferguson declares state of emergency after police shoot 18-year-old.
- Chinese spies have been reading top Obama administration officials' personal email since 2010.
- Ad-blocking software will cost websites almost $22 billion in lost revenue this year.
- Clinton announces $350 billion proposal to lower student loan interest rates and incentivize affordability at public universities.
- EPA accidentally releases three million gallons of wastewater—containing arsenic and lead—into Colorado river.
- Air traffic controllers's work schedules lead to chronic fatigue and reduced alertness, says suppressed government study.
- "The last time a man as geriatric as Serena won a grand slam was 1972."
- At Confederate Summer Camp—which of course has ties to the KKK—youngsters learn the Civil War wasn't about slavery.
- Why it's the duty of every white American to burn a Confederate flag.
- New Zealand is crowdsourcing its new flag, which will likely feature a fern.
- Defecting from IS.
- National Geographic updates its atlas with a lot less Arctic ice.
- It's not news that the universe is dying—there's just more evidence to support the theory.
- A man who took 40,000 ecstasy tabs in his 20s now has trouble concentrating—brain scans show nothing amiss.
- How to squeeze 20 minutes of kite flying into 80 seconds.
- Many attempts at self-improvement through YouTube tutorials.