March 1, 2017
Marines prefer to read Playboy for what it doesn’t show / TMN
See also: historian Amber Batura on how Playboy explains Vietnam; and novelist Jessica Francis Kane interviews her mother about working at Playboy when it started. / how playboy explains vietnam
Court documents obtained by the Guardian suggest indigenous activist Berta Cáceres was killed by affiliates of the country’s American-trained special forces, not an ex-lover as previously contended. / The Guardian
The other half is soy, according to DNA tests carried out by Canadian journalists. / CBC
“The thing is, he’s behaved so badly that if he doesn’t behave badly, people think he’s getting better.” Was the more polished Trump of last night’s address a Trump that can win again in 2020? / Politico
Marine Le Pen and the National Front probably have no chance of winning France’s upcoming presidential election. / The Economist
“What good is it to save one fish while we’re still destroying the ocean with pollution and acidification?...Is a sushi restaurant that serves bluefin under the table any better than an oil company that refuses to talk about climate change?” Mid-century Japanese referred to tuna as not good enough for the cats. Now it’s a delicacy driving bluefin to extinction. / The Ringer
An interesting article in the Times on how white noise, low humidity, and low pressure affect the way and the order in which molecules travel to our senses. / New York Times
“Oui, on peut!” Forty-two thousand people have signed a petition to elect Barack Obama president in France. / BBC
The Waters of the United States rule was created after the Obama Administration shifted through more than a thousand scientific papers to identify which streams, creeks, and wetlands were relevant to environmental health. The rule was lauded as a big step forward for ocean health. / ThinkProgress
Scientists tested the delicate ecosystems of the Marianas Trench and found highly elevated levels of PCBs, which were banned in 1977 in the United States as a threat to public health. / The Economist
At the same time that oceans are taking in massive amounts of carbon dioxide, they’re absorbing less oxygen than ever. The top levels of the ocean are warmer than usual thanks to human-caused climate change. / http
Ocean acidification, sometimes called “climate change’s evil twin,” begins with carbon pollution. / The New Yorker
“I didn’t become a software engineer to be trying to make ends meet.” A sampling of interviews with tech workers making between $100,000 and $700,000, who complain they’ve been priced out of San Francisco. / The Guardian
The mass protest at Standing Rock featured an Art Action camp. Sarain Fox of VICELAND explains its role: / VICELAND
Welcome to Ytterby, the tiny Swedish town that has four elements named after it. / Slate
Some newly discovered letters bring shocking stories to light in Megan Marshall’s Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast, a new biography of the poet that reveals shocking abuse from her childhood. / Amazon, The New Yorker