July 20, 2015
- Greek banks reopen, and first debt payments are made.
- For now, Greek merchants say they'll absorb higher VAT, rather than punish customers.
- Texas violates the 14th Amendment by denying birth certificates to undocumented immigrants' newborns.
- The Austin American-Statesman ends in-house printing with a luscious web tribute.
- Survey: Americans worry more about hacking, Iran nukes than climate change.
- The tools inspectors will use to keep tabs on Iran nukes.
- Cuba's US embassy to reopen today, 54 years after closing its doors.
- A history of Americans in Cuba, before the embargo.
- "I saw the first selfie stick 20 minutes after arriving in Havana."
- From using credit cards to booking flights: What to know about your trip to Cuba.
- A 2010 visit to Cuba turned up a lot of local paranoia and bad internet.
- A digest of how mandatory minimum sentencing came to be, and how it's going away.
- Amateur drones hinder firefighters at California wildfire.
- For the first time in 20 years, an Anaheim baseball game is rained out.
- The planned supercity around Beijing will be the size of Kansas.
- Higher temperatures trigger the return of Homo sapiens catcallus.
- Photographer captures portraits of men moments after catcalling her.
- The near-flawless Pluto mission was a triumph of ingenuity. It almost didn't happen.
- An animated flyover of Pluto's icy mountain and plains.
- Dr. Philip Zimbardo watches himself in The Stanford Prison Experiment.
- Medical professionals can't settle on why surgeons are assholes.
- Paul Ford: "People who make big web services can’t actually claim they protect their users."