July 25, 2014

• Fossils from a newly discovered dinosaur species suggest nearly all dinosaurs were feathered.
• Walmart ice-cream sandwiches don't melt in the sun because they're full of so much gum.
• Just before the troops went into Gaza, I went to a protest in Jerusalem. I went because I didn’t want my friends to go into Gaza.
• Mapping the casualties of the Syrian civil war.
• What happens to San Francisco if and when this tech bubble bursts: the rich stay, the rest move away.
• Life in an ISIS-controlled Syrian city.
• If the US exposes Putin's offshore wealth, "the Europeans [will] hate us for it now, but they'll thank us for it later."
• Semi-related: Explainer on how to win a Tour de France sprint.
• Astrophysicists say one way to find extraterrestrial life is by searching for polluted atmospheres.
• Among non-meteorologists, there's a lot of confusion about what a "20% chance of rain" means.
• See also: The top 10 flamboyantly named TV meteorologists.
• Remembering the shooting of Iran Air Flight 655, one of the Pentagon’s most inexcusable disgraces.
• Plastic surgeons battle on web forums with people who want celebrity clone surgery.
• Surgeons remove 232 teeth from a teenager in India complaining of swelling in his jaw.
• Knockoff Jeff Koons stainless-steel balloon animal available for $500.
• How Vodafone exploited an endangered language.
• Short film on the history of the high five.
• Victor Hugo did not prefer to write naked: an internet investigation.