July 31, 2015

• College Board sugarcoats US racial history after conservatives threaten to drop AP courses.
• Photo series shows how, in 250 years, the Mason-Dixon Line never really faded.
• A painter scours Iowa for remnants of the Underground Railroad.
• Jewish settlers set fire to two houses in the West Bank, killing a Palestinian toddler.
• Arresting officer's intolerance the "catalyst" for Sandra Bland's death, says head of Texas inquiry.
• Profiteering police departments.
• Boston's Olympic committee failed by assuming cities should develop in the name of profit.
• It's not clear who should run air traffic control for drones, but Google and Amazon want in on it.
• "Quietly, steadily, the Buffett family is funding the biggest shift in birth control in a generation."
• Right-wing media hits the tipping point.
• A die-hard liberal switches to a right-wing media diet for one month.
• Drake's disses eschew blatant misogyny for something less obviously problematic.
• "In exchange for audience, platforms ask for some degree of labor and conformity and control."
• Song and dance from an entomophagic future, where a minstrel plays for a grubby overlord.
• "All ball sports are aleatoric structures organized, to greater or lesser degrees, around bounce."
• "Shiterature": Pre-19th-century English lit is incomprehensible without attention to scatology.
• Your typing is distinctive enough to uncover your identity on Tor.
• Cosmonauts' pre-flight rituals.
• "Comets are pretty good places to find the building blocks of molecules which later on could be used for life."