March 2, 2016

• Super Tuesday sees Democrats solidify around Clinton, Republicans vent rage via Trump.
• The GOP faces two endgames: Donald Trump for president or a contested convention.
• The best article we've seen to explain Trump's success: Amanda Taub's "The rise of American authoritarianism."
• However: Trump often wins with the support of only 6% of a state's voters.
• Sanders upends Democratic voting demographics, excelling with poorer whites.
• Nine percent of black Americans are immigrants, nearly triple the number in 1980.
• Artist Anish Kapoor gets exclusive rights to paint with "Vantablack," the blackest black that has ever existed.
• Like certain words in poetry, Buddha faces contain many meanings—“and the sculptural convention that allowed this was asymmetry.”
• Selection of photos taken over the last year by NASA's Scott Kelly.
• China builds full-sized aircraft carrier made entirely of concrete.
• McDonald's creates happy meal boxes that turn into virtual reality headsets.
• Now available: The official 2016 Tournament of Books T-shirt, from book designer Janet Hansen—get some!
• Record number of nominees—the Pope, Merkel, Trump—put forward for the Nobel Peace Prize.
• California experiences rare “super bloom” of wildflowers in Death Valley, thanks to El Niño.
• America’s first official climate refugees are members of a Louisiana tribe living on a shrinking island.
• Declassified bin Laden writings call for Americans to read Thomas Paine, overthrow the oligarchs (and the Jews).
• Africa's divisions make regional trade difficult—and economies of scale hard to come by.
• Sorting through the numbers that are child-rearing in capitalism: insurance, school costs, mortgage payments.
• Confessions from a guerrilla right-to-die group in Canada.
• A teenager sent her boyfriend countless texts encouraging him to kill himself—is she his killer?
• Detailed but engaging fact-check of the eyewitness who saw OJ in his Bronco but was dismissed by the prosecution.