July 19, 2016

• Cleveland's GOP convention begins, and Melania Trump lifts a key passage from Michelle Obama's 2008 convention speech.
• RNC invites multi-level marketing pyramid schemer to speak.
• “Never Trump” Republicans seethe after close call at the start of the convention.
• Turkey's latest coup makes no sense: a summary of events.
• Cowen: Bad moods are the other great global migration problem.
• Canada will put a market-wide price on carbon this fall.
• Your Tuesday white paper: More than one in four LBGT adults could not afford to feed themselves or their families at least once in the past year.
• Following the privatization of academic publishers, social sciences papers are being deleted.
• How to create bullshit statistics.
• Difficulty of Tour de France climbs rated in comparison to American equivalents.
• The Rio ratio that matters: 42 condoms per athlete.
• Bill Simmons pays lengthy tribute to Serena Williams as one of the greatest athletes of all time.
• Simmons's tribute to Serena perhaps overdue, seeing how he used to "grade the Wimbledon babes."
• Reader's tweet to a bookstore's official Twitter account ends in matrimony.
• Big leap in atomic-level data storage may be able to store the Library of Congress “in a grain of salt.”
• “Silly though the Ice Bucket Challenge may seem now," it had far-reaching effects for ALS research.
• Malcolm Gladwell urges students not to attend Bowdoin or other schools where the food is good.
• For women in the trucking industry, business as usual can include  catcalling, harassment, and rape.
• Profile of the great moral philosopher Martha Nussbaum, who tends to skip anesthesia.
• Exegesis of a clothing brand: Supreme from 15 angles, from gender to “hyperobjects.”