June 22, 2016

• Brexit campaigners crisscross the UK for a final day of arguments.
• Latest polls find Britain (barely) inclined to remain in the EU.
• Recent stumbles by Trump encourage GOP critics to pursue a bid to block his nomination.
• Views of Chinese women on Clinton.
• Wall Street donors say they’ll cut off Clinton if she picks Warren as veep.
• Chaos syndrome is a chronic decline in the political system’s capacity for self-organization.
• Iowa senator King attempts to block Treasury's plan to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.
• In response to America's deadliest mass shooting: Gentle angry people.
• Man claiming to be Orlando killer's Grindr hookup gives Univision interview.
• Data from Colorado: When a state makes pot legal, the rate of teenage use stays the same.
• The number of upper middle class households in the US has more than doubled since 1979.
• Fascinating explanation of why larger-bodied species may become dwarfed over time to better exist on islands.
• Soldier kills tranquilized jaguar during Olympic torch ceremony in Brazil.
• Related: Peter Thiel’s assault on Gawker will push the next Gawker into shady territory.
• The death of Barnes & Noble would be catastrophic—not just for publishing houses and the writers they publish, but for American culture as a whole.
• The world’s cheapest helping of Coca-Cola—one cup for seven cents—is found in rural India.
• When breakfast debuted, critics called granola “wheat rocks.”
• Trichotillomania, cousin to obsessive-compulsive disorder, drives people to pull out their hair.
• Canadian funeral firm dissolves dead bodies and flushes them down the toilet.
• Literature adores a lady’s cadaver.
• I finally made my dad happy, and all it took was winning the Pulitzer Prize for my first novel.
• See also: "Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age."
• First woman to ride a bike around the globe was an outrageous liar and a total badass.