August 14, 2017

A reporter digs into why the government discourages putting conditioner in your hair after a nuclear disaster. / Racked

Sessions says the car attack in Charlottesville was “domestic terrorism”—a symbolic term that still provokes debate. / The New York Times

Worth noting: USA Today recently used a photo of the wrong Asian man in an article about... implicit bias. / DCist

Brief reports from South L.A.’s underground restaurants, serving food in parking lots or living rooms. / California Sunday

Terrific summary with everything you need to know about last week’s elections and political events around Africa. / This Week in Africa

A very good Reddit AMA on “why paying poor farmers to not cut down forests is a cheap way to combat climate change.” / The Winnower

The swimming commuter in this video is fricking delightful. / YouTube

California hot dog restaurant fires cook identified by @YesYoureRacist as a white supremacist in Charlottesville. / The San Francisco Chronicle

Japan’s cops, bored with a minuscule murder rate, are “becoming more inventive about what constitutes a crime.” / The Economist

The world’s largest bicycle parking garage is in the Dutch city of Utrecht—17,100 square meters for 6,000 bikes. / Designboom

Roadways clog with trade that should be seaborne thanks to a protectionist 1920 law meant to buoy merchant marines. / Quartz

Well, this is amazing: Scientists encode a computer virus into DNA, which infects a device when it’s sequenced. / The Atlantic

For any friends of yours planning to drop acid at a bachelor/ette party this weekend: A study finds that hallucinations occur when your brain’s internal fact-checking system fails—a finding that may someday help clinicians predict cases of schizophrenia. / Science

Carp living under frozen ice use fermentation to breathe; their winter booze level can be above the driving limit. / Mic

Your Monday art dose: Maggie Shannon’s photo series “Thunderbirds” captures the world of kids’ competitive swimming. / Maggie Shannon