March 7, 2017

Marines used a private Facebook group, Marines United, to share hundreds, possibly thousands, of naked photographs of female service members and veterans. / revealnews.org

A new edition of the Best Countries survey ranks Switzerland as No. 1, from a survey of more than 21,000 people from 36 countries. / U.S. News & World Report

“I do not consider Murray’s views scientifically or morally sound, and I condemn all white nationalist and white supremacist ends it has been used for. This does not negate, however, that he is right about the educated elite and our isolation from the rest of America.” In their own words, Middlebury students do a tick-tock to explain what happened when a visit by Charles Murray, of the noxious Bell Curve, turned violent. / New York Times

Using Facebook Messenger, refugees can use the DoNotPay chatbot to fill out immigration paperwork. / The Guardian

If you ever loved David Letterman, you’ll love him and his big beard all the more in this New York conversation. / Vulture

Here’s a flight over Japan’s Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, where walls of snow can reach over 60 feet high. / alpen-route.com, thekidshouldseethis.com

Ecuador has hosted Assange at its London embassy since 2012, when he fled bail and requested asylum to avoid extradition to Sweden (and, presumably, to the US afterward). But if president Correa loses the upcoming election to his right-wing opponent, Luillermo Lasso, Assange should expect the boot. / Business Insider

Twenty-six years after it was banned and seized by the Iranian government, Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s The Nights of Zayandeh-rood finally goes public. / Smithsonian

The lexical framework of “natural disaster” is an artifact of the Enlightenment-era tendency to categorize the world into human and divine causes—hence the enduring insurance clause against “acts of God.” In an age where earthquakes are caused by fracking and floods by air pollution, the term has outlived its usefulness, particularly because the economic fractures following disaster “protect and power global capitalism.” / sapiens.org

A report from Champlain, New York, where residents watch the waves of immigrants who’ve begun to leave Trump’s America for Trudeau’s Canada. / New York Times

A brief profile of New York artist Daniel Arnold. / Creators

“VR invites the user into a visual and aural immersion, without the user facing any of the consequences of being immersed in that space.” Development organizations developing “empathetic” virtual reality features should consider how one-sided the medium really is. / The New Inquiry

Drones 250 grams or heavier will require registration, an okay result based on terrible assumptions. / Recode