July 28, 2015

• Inside a cat circus.
• Americans are downsizing their calories, ending decades of food-gorging and weight gain.
• NATO holds a rare emergency meeting to address the threat ISIS poses to Turkey.
• Boston spurns Olympics—and precedent—by citing costs prohibitive to hosting 2024 Summer Games.
• An open letter from Musk, Hawking, Wozniak, and others urges separation of AI and weaponry.
• Pell grants available to prisoners for first time in 20 years—correctional education reduces recidivism.
• Chinese government is staving off a crash it can't withhold forever.
• Actors typecast as terrorists.
• Homeland Security inexplicably tracks #BlackLivesMatter events, activists, and social media.
• Desertification threatens tribe of Pakistani snake charmers, who can't find as many cobras.
• We can talk about vaccine side effects—carefully—without lending credence to anti-vaxxers.
• Planned Parenthood employee database hacked by anti-abortion group.
• Syriza's Varoufakis led an army in the clash of ideas, and that's enough for him.
• Kool AD debuts as Vice’s new parenting columnist.
• Kool AD’s non-review review of Union Square Sports Bar.
• "The great Dune film did get made. It's called Star Wars."