June 30, 2015

• Ebola-free for more than a month, Liberia reports a new case of the virus.
• Greek PM promises to resign if nation votes for austerity.
• Everything you need to know about the Greek debt crisis.
• New US pay rule would restore purchasing power for overtime workers to 1975 levels.
• Utrecht takes on basic income experiment.
• Carlos Slim—who is richer than Donald Trump—joins NBC and Univision in killing Trump TV projects.
• Putin wants to turn a former Arctic mining town into a vacation spot.
• Rand Paul Hackathon judges care more than the hackers do about liberty.
• What's drawing sharks to North Carolina beaches: saltier water, warmer weather, plentiful bait fish.
• The algorithmic genius of ants.
• Floods submerge a Philippines town every year—but the houses float on bamboo.
• Electric cars are only as clean as the outlets they plug into—in coal country they should be taxed.
• Hartford cries foul as minor league baseball returns, but with a silly new mascot: The Yard Goat.
• Busty covers held romance novels back; the anonymous Kindle unlocks untold erotica markets.
• Seinfeld's dry, referential humor never took hold abroad because it is too hard to translate.
• Courtney Barnett, D'Angelo, and NPR's 25 favorite albums of the first half of 2015.
• Fans send messages of support to Federer in a red envelope he gets before every tournament.
• Paul Thurmond and his old man get along OK. But sometimes it feels like he doesn't get me at all.
• Sarah Hepola's Blackout: "It's a win-win. She got a better life. We have this book."