Rachel Maddow: There’s a classified NSA document being shopped to news orgs—including MSNBC—and it’s probably forged / MSNBC Observing wild chimps foraging medicinal plants, researchers found seven cancer-inhibiting compounds. / Quartz Bonkers multi-chapter feature imagining the future of football, replete with interstellar love and tornado-chasing.
“It’s easy to feel, especially in France, like you can’t move for problems—migrants, unemployment, Brexit. In some ways this is also about moving on. Every moment says ‘now.’” A new dance, “10,000 gestures,” by French choreographer Boris Charmatz, doesn’t repeat a single movement during an
Volvo won’t make any more cars with internal combustion engines after 2019, only electric or hybrid. / Reuters A 101-year-old Louisiana woman—who took up sprinting last year—set a senior woman’s record in the 100-yard dash. / AP News Profile of Michael K. Williams with much
The most complex non-human society on Earth is elephantine, and it shares a lot with pre-agricultural human society. / The Economist Tech firms set a dangerous precedent by capitulating to foreign powers asking to scrutinize their source code. / Gizmodo “I hated that, I really hated that. My sports psychologist
Canada’s 150th birthday is tomorrow, but the land’s original inhabitants have been there for thousands of years. / The Economist German parliament approves gay marriage. Merkel voted against it. / BBC News Seeing how India is better at protecting cows than women, an artist decided to “mock the whole system.
Trump can’t get enough textbook paternalistic sexism: this time calling out an Irish reporter for her looks. / Twitter/Caitriona Perry “Serena Williams competes in women’s tennis and is the best there ever was. End of discussion. She would not beat Nadal. She would also lose a race to
A Venezuelan police helicopter strafed the country’s Supreme Court, fired 15 shots and dropped four grenades. / Reuters Survey says that Canadians prefer Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s greatest political rival: the New York Times version of Justin Trudeau. / YouTube Canada is immune to populism thanks to unusual immigration policies—
When left alone, a pair of chatbots deviated into gibberish, but eventually reached a sense of compromise. / The Next Web “One called him ‘the face of corporate greed’, another labeled him ‘the most hated man in America’ and a third gestured as if wringing his neck.” Lawyers for the Martin
Yemen’s civil war has created an out-of-control cholera outbreak—more than 200,000 cases, with 5,000 added daily. / NPR FireWire was almost that rare story where tech giants could agree on one thing—then Apple tried to cash in. / Ars Technica How a group of fans
A useful comparison between the key aspects of the ACA and the Senate’s healthcare proposal. / The New York Times Genoa airport raises limits on carry-on liquids for travelers who want to take home its famous pesto. / The Guardian Arab countries issue demands to Qatar: Eliminate Al-Jazeera, a
