March 30, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Negotiators meet in Switzerland this week to hammer out a framework for an accord over Iran’s nuclear program.
- Results expected tomorrow from Nigeria's presidential election, widely lauded as a success.
- This year there will be 14 or 15 presidential elections in Africa—two most likely free, eight half-free, as many as five stolen outright.
- Over 30 world leaders’ personal details leaked after G20 security breach.
- America's most expensive college is Sarah Lawrence: $65,480 for the 2014-2015 school year.
- Amusing scrapbook of late-night adventures in New York City, including Puff Daddy's 29th birthday.
- Despite drought conditions, unknown amounts of water are being extracted from California parks by water-bottling companies.
- Related: Documenting the absurd terraforming of the Nevada desert.
- Demand for sand is erasing islands and driving violent conflict as groups wrestle for control of humanity's third-most-consumed resource.
- Crackdown at the Mexican border drives immigrants out of the desert and into the Rio Grande, where drownings have surged.
- Brief white paper on the myth of the European Little Ice Age, statistical artifacts, irregular oscillation, and the Slutsky Effect.
- Linguistic analysis of World Bank documents' "Bankspeak"—nouns modified beyond recognition, gerunds distracting from a lack of progress.
- See also: Further evidence that Michael Jordan has talked shit to everyone.
- Recollections from a date with Don Draper.
- For Jeremy Clarkson, who plays this superhero, to be laid low by the dull grind of consequence, of taking responsibility for his actions, is a great betrayal.
- Enter the ToB final-match contest for a chance to win great swag from Field Notes and Powells.com.
- International Space Station's "weird shape" blamed on the difficulty of doing construction in space.
- New research finds the amount of time parents spend with their kids between ages 3 and 11 has "virtually no relationship" to how children turn out.
- Unrelated: Images of trees "totally sucking on things."
