July 7, 2015

• "Black hole awakens, erupts after 26 years"—suddenly, 8,000 light years doesn't sound far enough away.
• South Carolina measure to remove the Confederate flag heads to the House, where anything could happen.
• Congress's rewrite of No Child Left Behind will become a debate over how much government people want.
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• Most Wanted fugitive hiked the Appalachian Trail for six years to evade capture.
• Unlike police, prosecutor diversity is unwatched and uneven—and has more influence on who goes to jail.
• Film chemistry shows effects of early and persistent white ethnocentrism.
• Bernie Sanders lays out the political case for inviting the scorn of "the billionaire class."
• In six-year sample, Colorado thoroughly demonstrates free contraceptives offer public health boon.
• When marijuana growers pivot to salad greens.
• Finger-wagging linguistic instructions to "overly apologetic" women are thinly veiled commands to "talk like a man."
• Iranian-Americans find no translation for linguistic dance of deference central to their culture's decorum.
• Tsarnaev seeks a new trial, citing lack of evidence in the case that ended in his death sentence.
• There's a giant dome filled with plutonium that will go underwater on a Pacific island thanks to sea level rise.
• Tracing the mp3 revolution to patient zero of the album leak.
• How the Internet of Things can aid the visually impaired.
• San Fermín festival body count, day one: two Americans, one Briton gored, eight injured.
• "I legitimized running with the bulls by saying I played soccer in high school and am generally faster than most people."
• "How to Unmarry Your Wife" author Sarah Viren talks about feeling remarried in Texas after the SCOTUS ruling (begins at 36:54).
• "Having one state declare my marriage legal, and then another deem it illegal, has affected how I self-identify."