June 16, 2014

• Their only protection was a sheet, painted with the words “children, children, children,” that was taped around the minivan.
• The crisis in Iraq has brought about unprecedented levels of post-1979 US-Iran cooperation.
• Palestinian woman plants flowers in tear gas grenades.
• On the life of Haruki Murakami.
• Some pig: Heading to the slaughterhouse, a pig climbs over her fellow pigs and jumps 16 feet from a moving truck to safety.
• Rangers confirm the carcass of an elephant killed by poachers belonged to the iconic Kenyan elephant Satao.
• The last women footbinders of China.
• "Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string": Why your earbuds never stay neatly coiled.
• Alcoholic, female, writer: from Duras to Rhys.
• TMN's Leah Finnegan writes about what it means to Instagram Auschwitz.
• The rise of "Quooklyn" is just what it sounds like. Everybody left in New York City, please proceed to the nearest exit.
• Paul Ford on how kitty litter influenced the internet.
• Susan Orlean's 1990 New York Times Magazine profile of late radio pioneer Casey Kasem.
• Canada, for all the ideas Americans have about its progressivism, has no federal or provincial food stamp program for its needy.
• Harvard professor Kimberly Theidon was denied tenure and fired for speaking out for students who were sexually harassed.