Greatly impressive, sometimes revolutionary.
On a day of student protests against gun violence, a gunman shot two hospital employees at a University of Alabama hospital. 1/12
Fleeing ICE and, presumably, deportation, two die in a car crash in California. 2/12
Electricity demand in the US is flat, thanks to efficiency and outsourcing. Utilities failed to see it coming. 3/12
A good profile of Nikki Haley, Trump’s top diplomat, who would appear to be running for president. 4/12
The darkly funny "Mind Games" is a game within a game—of passive aggression, gaslighting, and guilt-tripping. 5/12
National Geographic outs itself as a racist magazine, hoping to gain credibility by coming clean. See also: the New York Times starts to correctly for mostly eulogizing white men; even in the last two years, just over one in five of its obituary subjects were women. 6/12
Black sports stars embrace the "Wakanda Forever" salute. 7/12
A man tries to be the champion runner of a single mile in his neighborhood. He succeeds and he doesn't. 8/12
An artist explains how she turns discarded plastic bottles into plein air paintings. 9/12
An interesting critique of Steven Pinker’s sources, methodology, cherry-picking. 10/12
He was extremely highly regarded, in view of his many greatly impressive, sometimes revolutionary, contributions to the understanding of the physics and the geometry of the universe. A scientist’s obituary for Stephen Hawking, “an extraordinarily determined person.†11/12
Video: Stephen Hawking had a great sense of humor. 12/12
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