June 10, 2016

• Tens of thousands prepare to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali in his home city of Louisville.
• Photographs from Ali's storied career.
• Former Pablo Escobar enforcer finds fame on YouTube.
• Bangladeshi police make breakthroughs in the case of who is killing all of the secular bloggers and activists.
• Stunning timelapse video filmed over three years shows Singapore's rapid growth.
• Ban Ki-moon admits he removed Saudi Arabia from a UN list of child-killers because of budget threats.
• Man lives 17 months without a heart by carrying around an artificial one in a backpack.
• Scientists figure out how to turn unwanted carbon dioxide into stone.
• In major victory for animal rights groups, America’s largest egg producers will stop killing male chicks.
• Lovely examination of McDonald’s franchises as community centers and lifelines.
• Restaurants hate Tinder daters.
• Brown and UCONN reported the most rapes in 2014, the most recent year with data available.
• Seattle man allegedly posed as a female porn recruiter, got his “recruits” drunk during “auditions,” and raped them.
• Return of the "bro whisperer"—Bill Simmons on his acrimonious departure from ESPN and his plans for HBO.
• Increasing numbers of classical musicians use tablets instead of sheet music—to get in touch with older scores.
• New York Times runs story without periods to show how young people are abandoning puncutation
• Vermont newspaper hosts an essay contest; the prize is the Vermont newspaper.
• Wealthy Mormon engineer says he wants to build 20 “sustainable” megalopolises in Vermont.
• Photos of scavengers who travel with Native American hunters and help field-dress bison in Yellowstone National Park.
• Watching The Empire Strikes Back as a child does not prepare you for the first time you field-dress an animal in the snow.
• A look at the countless innocent victims of the daily gun violence in many urban communities.