June 16, 2016

• Democratic Senator's filibuster leads to a "path forward" in the Senate on two gun control measures.
• Since the gun lobby has long suppressed research, basic questions remain about how policy can lead to prevention.
• Trump sees two civilizations at conflict; for Obama, they are one.
• To prove no one would vote for it, GOP congressman introduced a bill to include women in the draft; yesterday, it passed.
• In many countries women are more likely to lean left, though in Europe "women were long seen as bastions of conservatism."
• Brexit roils London on a neighbor-to-neighbor level.
• Flotillas fight over Brexit on London's Thames.
• Ships have gotten so big that the eggs-in-one-basket risk overwhelms economies of scale.
• New research suggests that parents' careless comments about weight gain can have repercussions for years afterward.
• if African-American children were all taught by the top 25% of teachers, the performance gap between blacks and whites would close within eight years.
• Chinese college students leave nude photos as IOUs on online lending platforms.
• Half of people with a prescription for opioid painkillers keep pills for later; 20% share them with friends.
• DuPont’s proposed merger with Dow carries major concerns for thousands suing the company for damages from pollution.
• Citigroup trademarked "thankyou," enabling it to sue AT&T for saying "thanks."
• The collapse of the distinction between journalism and advertising isn’t some dystopian future; it’s already here.
• From conversation to computation: the history of humanity can be told by changes in what we do with our hands.
• Life as a female rock climber in a van.
• Ichiro Suzuki is baseball's new career leader in base hits if you count his Japanese and US years equally; Pete Rose disagrees.
• Headline of the day: "Man finds 22-pound chunk of butter estimated to be more than 2,000 years old in Irish bog."