December 2, 2014
- Obama announces federal funding for police body cameras and tighter guidelines on military weapons for law enforcement.
- Yesterday thousands joined #HandsUpWalkOut to mark the hour Michael Brown was murdered.
- Evidence ISIS has peaked: new losses in battles accompany dissension and infighting among the group's various factions.
- Dr. Nadeem Siddiqui gives TV sex advice in conservative Pakistan.
- Amid accusations of overstated findings and spotty research, personal genome company 23andMe expands to the UK.
- Republican posturing can't overcome the GOP's widening cultural and policy gap with Silicon Valley.
- America throws away enough food in one year to feed California.
- California's Topaz Solar Farm is now online—earlier than expected—and will offset emissions equivalent to 73,000 cars.
- 41 heuristics on the ethics of building things.
- The BAHFest conference, now in its second year, uses real science to prove fake theories.
- Even without concussions, small brain injuries sustained over the course of a high school football season cause abnormalities.
- More than a third of the Earth's volume is composed of bridgmanite, and scientists finally have a sample of it.
- Requiring suicidal students to leave campus is common, but the policy may benefit universities more.
- A Guatemalan family claims the girl adopted by a Missouri family eight years ago is their kidnapped daughter.
- If bitcoin amounts to nothing more than a fad...at least it made a group of people happy for a couple hours.
- Perfect Pussy lead singer Meredith Graves on losing her voice and falling in love.