July 11, 2014

• Interviews with the border children.
• The story of the largest slave auction in America, in Georgia on March 2-3, 1859, known as the Weeping Time.
• How Patti Hammond Shaw, who was jailed with men who allegedly abused her, changed how police treat transgender people.
• Laverne Cox is nominated for an Emmy.
• Someone with an IP address linked to the US Congress is updating the "horse head mask" Wikipedia page.
• Related: @congressedits collects Wikipedia edits from Congress.
• Ten major companies own nearly all of the mainstream food brands.
• Alleged car thief becomes the first person known to die in a Tesla Model S crash.
• Why Domino's retired the Noid: In 1989, Kenneth Noid entered one of its stores with a gun and took two employees hostage.
• To avert economic crisis, Mexican ambassador to Ireland offers to lobby to allow five Garth Brooks concerts to proceed.
• The same people keep appearing in Japanese TV news "person on the street" segments, which likely means they're staged.
• Across the border with South Korea, North Korea maintains a fake civilian village meant to impress.
• To cool cities—which store a lot of heat—build more tall, reflective skyscrapers, fewer short townhouses.
• Virginia police abandon plan to take explicit photos of a teen accused of sexting with his girlfriend.
• Paper has a mortal life: Its aging can be hurried or slowed, depending on how it’s treated, and its death can be mourned.
• See also: An appreciation of the underappreciated typography of silent film.
• Belgian soccer fan might have scored a modeling contract after a photo of her cheering at the World Cup went viral.
• What soccer fouls would look like off the pitch.