June 9, 2017

Why executive privilege doesn’t extend to Comey: He’s now a private citizen, and he didn’t reveal classified info. / The Washington Post

A skincare line sold at Urban Outfitters is wreaking havoc on complexions—one side effect is “skin atrophy.” / Observer

“Here are some things I’ve done recently: challenged a TSA agent who ordered me to remove a Kleenex from my pocket, sat in the wrong seat on a flight and claimed it was the other person’s fault, told a lost-bag agent that I was about to miss my next flight when it was not true.” Sarah Lyall spends eight days in air-travel hell. / The New York Times

The Brexit backlash: Tories lost seats in Eurosceptic areas, only winning where Leave votes were especially high. / The Guardian

Interactive maps show the shift in how Britain voted, and where the parties picked up seats. / The New York Times

While we weren’t watching, the House legislated to weaken Dodd-Frank, exempting certain banks from its restrictions. / The New York Times

More than two years of conflict have created Yemen’s cholera epidemic, now up to 100K cases, with 791 deaths. / World Health Organization

When non-mothers hijack the lactation room at work for calls, naps—even sex—it gets renamed the “quiet room.” / The Guardian

A brief history of Spaceball, the basketball-gymnastics-volleyball nexus that was too good for this world. / Atlas Obscura

Falls are second-leading cause of accidental death, and science is just starting to understand how to survive them. / Mosaic

Often, the homes that appear on HGTV’s house-flipping shows are available because the previous owners are evicted. / The Outline

The magnets in the stellarator at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics are artworks unto themselves. / Ars Technica

That would be “witting” as in the opposite of “unwitting”: / The Root

The case reminds me of “whelmed,” which one never sees unadorned by “over” or “under” but is, nonetheless, a Real Word (“to engulf, submerge, or bury”). But how many arguments does “to wit” take? Does one wit to, wit in, wit of? As with the Russia probe, so with grammar: Our questions are only beginning. And even if James Comey is the best essayist to debut in years, he’s still not hot. Unless you’re into watching, I guess? / The Awl, Jezebel, Salon

Voice of Baceprot is an all-girl teen metal band from West Java, and they’re here to thrash stereotypes. / The Guardian