Does your teen shop at Staples? DEA warns adults that drugs may be stashed in graphing calculators and highlighters. / The Washington Post To understand how Zika crosses the placenta into the brain, doctors are studying twins where only one is affected. / The New York Times Mattel’s new AI soothes
The famed, extremely fast Swiss mountaineer Ueli Steck died yesterday while training on Everest. / uelisteck.ch A call for staff to buy the Tate Museums’ departing director a sailboat highlights income inequality in the UK. / The Daily Mail “North Carolina’s swift descent into madness should send congressional Republicans into
“If soccer was invented today, heading would be outlawed until pretty much the professional level.” It’s not so much that headers in soccer cause concussions, as that attempting a header makes a player vulnerable to head and neck injuries. / The Ringer A Muslim weightlifter convinces Nike to enter the
Politicians who mock the EU secretly love the big pay, the media exposure, the immunity from criminal prosecution. / New York Times “As for civil society, we can best quote the Prime Minister himself: ‘Show me that civil society so I can put flowers on its grave.’” For the (frightening, potential,
Trump’s tax plan came from a 1974 theory that tax cuts grow the economy—what Bush 41 called “voodoo economics.” / The New York Times Congressional Republicans drop Trump’s wall funding in order to focus on averting government budget shutdown. / BuzzFeed The split between the brothers behind Adidas and
Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales starts a new publication to fight fake news by pairing journalists with volunteers. / WikiTribune “Americans on all sides of the Trump question, including President Trump himself, should embrace a moderate nationalism in keeping with our national character.” After the editors of the National Review debate the
Analysis of the French election: The outsiders won, the insiders were ousted, and the EU’s future is in the balance. / The New York Times “I also had friends who chose not to march, because of politics, because science is supposed to be neutral, and, frankly, because they had to
Killer Mike and George Clinton have an unusual thing in common besides music: They’ve both owned barber shops. NPR recently got them together to discuss both. / NPR
Ahead of Sunday’s election in France, a guide to the candidates and issues, e.g., Brexit, terrorism, Trump, Putin. / The New York Times Texas Board of Education to vote whether “evaluate” is acceptable in science curricula, or promotes creationism. / The Texas Tribune German police charge soccer bus attacker—rather
“Months pass and I do not go back.” One way to escape a marriage of psychological abuse: a rickety 1998 Volvo wagon. / Longreads “There are the hats that we call a Kmart, Walmart special. Some people from out of town come here with those cheap straw hats, it’s kinda
