June 11, 2015

• History shows if IS wins, we'll first contain it then begrudgingly accept it.
• Paul Ford explains code.
• Visual politics of the Israeli occupation, where social media documents one side or the other—but never both.
• Diane Rehm asks Bernie Sanders if he's an Israeli citizen because she read it in a Facebook comment. (He isn't.)
• Clinton goes with the "Obama strategy" of appealing to the left—she must to win the primary.
• Iowa Republicans freak out over the possibility their straw poll is losing influence in the GOP.
• Evidence shows Tim Hunt is right: Labs should be segregated by gender. No old men allowed.
• How Pyrex transformed every kitchen into a Home-Ec lab.
• CO2 increases plant productivity, but climate change more than offsets the benefits, decreasing food output.
• Confusion about sell-by dates results in food waste on a massive scale.
• Probable dates, calculated, for very bad things that are likely to occur in our lifetimes—and beyond.
• A side effect of humans taking over jungles is an especially infectious malaria parasite.
• Google Street Views of the final places people existed before being killed by police officers.
• UK police are using rogue cell phone towers to surreptitiously intercept calls.
• Marge and Homer "legally separate" in upcoming season of The Simpsons.
• Only The Simpsons succeeds with the TV trope where one character seeing another naked.
• Those with mixed Native American and white backgrounds are less likely to self-identify as multiracial.
• "Without cosmetic intervention, men and women would look a lot more alike."
• The iterative method for making productive metaphors.