February 26, 2016
By The Morning News
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- High turnout as Iranians vote in first elections since the nuclear agreement.
- Latest Republican debate turns into "screamfest," with Rubio on attack.
- Trump continues to be a heat-seeking missile in the GOP, blowing up every obstacle in his way.
- In 1992, Parents Magazine asked women if Donald Trump would be a good Valentine; women said no.
- Iowa racists chant "Trump!" at a racially diverse basketball team.
- Sanders as code-switcher.
- According to a study of presidential speeches, conservatives prefer nouns, liberals prefer adjectives.
- How your brain treats foreign accents: basically, like a jerk.
- Supreme Court justices regularly take all-expenses-paid trips; Scalia took the most by far.
- State policies, not Hillary Clinton or the 1994 federal crime bill, fueled mass incarceration.
- Maine reporter follows a boy’s heroin addiction into crime, adulthood, and jail.
- When strung together, Roger Ebert's snippets of writing about addiction become a master class.
- Humane look at how parents are tackling the question of editing a baby’s genes.
- Researchers have built a wearable robotic limb that allows drummers to play with three arms.
- To become a bestselling author in one of Amazon's categories, you need $3 and five minutes.
- Buy a special Tournament of Books memo book for $2 and Field Notes will match your $2 and donate $4 to 826 National.
- Round-up of fun web tools for unlocking connections between art, math, and science.
- See also: Designers share the notebooks they use for sketching.
- Sports teams get an unnecessary pass for racist bans on facial hair.
- Cruise notes from a weekend with the Patriots' Rob Grownkowski.
