June 30, 2014

• Blackwater’s Iraq ops chief threatened to kill a State Dept. official in charge of investigating the heavily criticized security provider.
• Sunni group leading insurgency in Iraq declares a new caliphate stretching from Iraq's Diyala province to Syria's Aleppo.
• Disturbing new footage shows the violence that resulted when two Arizona State University police confronted a professor for jaywalking.
• Americans believe US colleges are the best in the world, but skills testing shows otherwise.
• At a Michigan men’s rights conference, feminism is the enemy.
• Women who are able to become moms later in life are twice as likely to live into their 90s.
• Mira Jacob on how her parents, 30 years into an arranged marriage, fell in love.
• Ramadan was first celebrated in America by African slaves.
• Facebook manipulated its users' moods by adjusting the negative and positive content in their news feeds.
• Facebook responds: "The research benefits of the paper may not have justified all of this anxiety."
• See also: How we use Facebook to make our lives seem better than they are.
• Leah Reich on being a Bay Area "techie."
• Scotland to petition US to lift ban on sheep lung and bring back haggis, opening a market worth millions.
• Abandoned: a theme park, a prison, a monastery, and a five-star hotel.
• "Our Band Only Sold One Copy of Our Album and We'd Like It Back."