July 26, 2013: Morning
- Significant gender gaps found globally in public opinion about America's use of drones.
- Security for the Pope's visit to Brazil said to cost the country $52 million.
- Remembering New York's only black millionaire in the mid-19th century, Jeremiah G. Hamilton, now overlooked by historians.
- I understood that when Mama said “white folks,” she meant the worst of white folks.
- Doctors can't refuse to care based on “invidious” discriminatory criteria like race or ethnicity—but what happens when patients are racist toward them?
- "There's No Formula for Fixing Detroit, and That's a Good Thing."
- Only 53% of Detroit's property owners paid their property taxes in 2011.
- Related: "Now and then" pictures of life in Detroit's schools.
- Pulling children out of school for the summer makes inequality in America worse.
- Thanks to a "cult" of hard-working reviewers, there's no better place on the internet to learn about classical music than Amazon.
- Depending on who you ask, Cloud Rap either is 'the best shit happening right now' or it doesn't exist.
- Bike builder attempts build a bicycle in his shop that can reach 100 mph.
- The "nadir" of a minor-league baseball game has very little to do with the game, and frequently occurs in the middle innings.
- Economics of menstrual hygiene in India
- Bollywood ditches its movies' traditional "cut to Switzerland" in favor of other locales.