March 18, 2016
By The Morning News
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- North Korea launches ballistic missiles test, following Obama's new round of sanctions.
- Latest Chinese social-media skinny craze finds women trying to hide waists behind single sheets of paper.
- The Chinese nickname for Facebook—“must die” or “doomed”—makes sense when Zuckerberg jogs in smog.
- Related: Chinese citizens grow "hideous" mustaches to filter extreme air pollution.
- Japanese tour guides, finding Paris too dirty, elect to clean the city themselves.
- It's increasingly unlikely that Earth's warming will stay under two degrees celsius, the limit of “safe” global warming.
- Vernal equinox is set for March 20—spring’s earliest start since 1896.
- Photographs of ski resorts from space.
- Some 90% of coal produced by America’s three largest coal companies is on land leased by the government.
- Black people account for nearly all of America’s marijuana arrests, but just 1% of legal dispensary owners.
- See also: Part two of Evan Ratliff's "The Mastermind."
- Fifty-six percent of millennials identify as “working-class,” highest number since the ‘80s.
- No real evidence shows that standing at work is better for you than sitting; calories burned equal two banana chips.
- Over half of New York Times articles about Islam are negative, with a sharp increase in 2014.
- Prison riots now regularly occur in Alabama, and the governor’s response is to build more prisons.
- Hillary Clinton has no true intentions to reform the criminal justice system.
- Agencies that protect US parks "enjoy a reputation for a certain benign progressivism," and a troubling history of hostility toward women.
- In the ToB's final opening-round match, Paul Beatty's The Sellout meets The Invaders by Karolina Waclawiak.
- "Greatest novel written in the Irish language"—said to be "exquisitely vulgar"—finally translated into English.
- New pronouns proposed for robots: “rhe” and “rer,” “ris” and “rers.”
- Safe-for-work taxonomy of erotic fixations.
