June 9, 2015

• Patient zero in Seoul's MERS outbreak "coughed and wheezed his way through four hospitals."
• Pools have a long history as a racist suburban site of urban ghettoization.
• Summer: "the season of hyper-surveillance and even more aggressive policing of young people of color."
• A mother answers her mixed-race son's questions about Michael Jackson and whether white people fear brown people.
• Civil rights movement never quite won a right to public education, which remains staggeringly unequal.
• Federal judge orders the release of the final imprisoned member of the Angola 3.
• US dominance at Women's World Cup vs. the official who used bribes for a Manhattan cat apartment.
• Serena Williams doesn't have to worry if she belongs in the game—the game belongs to her.
• Cayman Islands newspaper publisher flees to Florida fearing retribution over FIFA corruption coverage.
• "Every year, some 12,200 very much alive U.S. citizens are declared dead by the Social Security Administration."
• When your entire family works at Walmart, yes, you live at Walmart.
• Citizen science: How to help scientists study the sex lives of fireflies.
• Humans don't take climate change seriously because we're hardwired to ignore existential threats.
• Researchers find watching Sesame Street as educational as attending preschool.
• Growing up in Silicon Valley is when your sister names her favorite stuffed animals Google and Yahoo!
• Disney heads to NLRB to argue its theme park performers must remain anonymous.
• "ClickHole—a site satirizing clickbait—doesn’t actually post that much clickbait."