June 24, 2014

• Tens of thousands of Iraqis form military ¨Peace Brigades¨ to assist the government.
• Map of the US shows where guns outnumber libraries and museums.
• See also: Profile of the first blind man to acquire a concealed-carry permit.
• Twenty emergency responders required to extract an American foreign-exchange student from a stone sculpture of a vagina in Germany.
• Nearly 1,400 uninspected oil and gas wells exist in America, and nearly half of them are in Wyoming.
• Air Force says the use of archaic systems—8-inch floppy disks—aids the cyber security of America's nuclear arsenal.
• Science behind Facebook PDA.
• Study attempting to measure how often people think about sex confounded by the "white bear problem."
• Reddit forum addresses "what's the most fucked-up thing you've ever done for money."
• True crime reminds its readers over and over again that most detectives aren’t fantastically clever.
• Mexico's success in the World Cup used as smoke screen for the PRI to continue its "Mafioso depravity."
• UAE’s Masdar City found to be the most sustainable city in the Middle East.
• Investigating the actual value of Cincinnati’s historic buildings: priceless in terms of sentiment; very expensive to actually renovate.
• George Saunders writes liner notes.
• The twilight of hipster misogyny detected in the downfall of Terry Richardson and Dov Charney.
• New Orleans funeral home follows Puerto Rican trend of posing dead people in real-life situations, rather than coffins.