March 21, 2016
By The Morning News
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- George Packer on how Tunisia, post-Arab Spring, became the Middle East's leading exporter of jihadis.
- Twenty-five percent of Puerto Rico will probably get Zika within a year; 80% or more may become infected.
- Only 37% of Americans have the savings to cover a $500 car repair or a $1,000 emergency room bill.
- Brockovich: I didn’t discover Flint — the community wrote to me.
- Thanks to a law from 1887, there’s a legal scenario where John Kasich could single-handedly pick the next US president.
- Occupations held by Britons in 1881.
- Years after becoming a model for desegregation, Charlotte schools face old tests all over again.
- Why it’s the duty of every white American to burn a Confederate flag.
- Maryland scrubs "Northern scum" and other Civil War phrases from its official state song.
- Today, the probability of a one-word song title is two and a half times greater than in the 1960s.
- Jogging in groups requires government registration in Burundi, and can only be done in approved venues.
- Steph Curry still sees room for improvement in his game, in focus and turnovers.
- "The savanna theory" finds that smart people are less happy when they spend more time with friends.
- Sociologists take issue with pundits who play fast and loose identifying the white working class with intolerance.
- A cadre of corporations, more powerful than many countries, “unsettles the notion of a global superpower.”
- In a newly documented Amazonian tribe, speakers refer to time by pointing to where the sun would be.
- Visual guide to trash discarded by employees of the world’s largest particle accelerator.
- "In the Event That You Have Accidentally Swallowed the Higgs Boson."
- "Graphophilia" is a fetish for handwriting.
- Today in the Tournament of Books, Kit Rachlis meets Bats of the Republic and The Sympathizer.
- Now available: ToB16 coffee mugs—to drink from whenever someone says "DFW."
- Buy a special ToB Memo Book for $2 and Field Notes will match your $2 and donate $4 to 826 National.
