July 28, 2014

• During an uncertain Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire, Israeli official says the IDF is only attacking if fired upon.
• Texan ranchers near the Mexican border band together to track down illegal immigrants and send them back.
• Long after the demise of the sanitarium, doctors have begun prescribing nature walks.
• First large-scale study on the impact of trees on human health finds that trees save 850 lives per year.
• In 1971, a 17-year-old girl trekked 10 days, injured and alone, through the rainforest, to become the sole survivor of a plane crash.
• What it was like inside the 1989 United Airlines crash, in which 184 of 296 passengers survived.
• Interview with longshot Toronto mayoral candidate Matthew Crack.
• The end of Buckyballs: After 1,700 horrific medical incidents involving children, regulators demand a full recall.
• If companies are claiming the rights and privileges of people, maybe people should start claiming the rights and privileges of corporations.
• Business schools encourage straight students to crash LGBTQ job fairs.
• TMZ is part of a Hollywood media tradition of endlessly destroying and resurrecting careers.
• How Kim Kardashian has outsmarted all of her male critics.
• A tour of American cities, mapping the history of playground basketball and why it's dying.
• Roxane Gay reviews the beach.
• The afterlife has become just another career stage—one that's as lucrative and, in some cases, as productive as the pre-death career ever was.