July 23, 2015
- For the third "straight" year, most Americans accept our gay reality.
- New study: Glaciers melting 10x faster than expected; ocean to rise 10 feet in 50 years.
- Trump has around 515 jobs and whether he's worth $50 million is anyone's guess.
- Oncologists stand with movement to stop the rapid price increases of cancer drugs.
- Ahead of Obama's Kenya trip, US carries out secret airstrikes against Al-Shabaab in Somalia.
- "[Obama] stayed away from Kenya until now, unwilling to provoke the obvious political circus."
- White House says plan to close Guantánamo Bay nearly ready.
- Researcher finds incarceration turns small-time offenders into career criminals.
- Dylann Roof to be charged with federal hate crime.
- Congress waits to hear from Mississippi before removing Confederate sympathizer flag from US Capitol.
- Hundreds of human rights lawyers arrested and detained in Chinese crackdown.
- NYC's notoriously difficult gun permit application process has spawned a slew of consulting firms.
- Pharmaceutical companies are doubling down their research on people with rare genetic mutations.
- Ikea offers repair kits to all owners of a dresser that killed two children.
- Air conditioning uses less energy than heating, but seems unnatural and therefore wrong.
- New York will increase fast-food workers' minimum wage from $8.75 to $15 an hour.
- Nicholas Jaar and friends feed artists' samples to drums equipped with sensors.
- A brief, amazing history of sci-fi movie sound effects.
- "Why I deleted your band's promo email."