May 15, 2014

• The NSA reform bill only limits the surface of the agency's spying.
• EU ruling gives people the right to ask Google to remove information about them.
• Among those asking Google to remove links: a disgraced ex-politician, a convicted pedophile, a doctor with negative patient feedback.
• FCC meets with net neutrality protestors ahead of today's public hearing.
• Professors inflate grades largely because adjunct jobs depend on popularity.
• Danish health survey on the link between mortality and social conflict reveals frequent conflict​ ​increases death risk by ​two or three times​.
• Captain and three crew members of the South Korean ferry ​have been charged with manslaughter.
• The Central African Republic, as recorded by the 26-year-old​ French photojournalist Camille Lepage, who was killed on assignment.
• National Institutes of Health mandates the routine gender bias​​ in basic laboratory research must end.
• New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson fired after inquiring about the discrepancy between her pay and that of her male predecessor.
• Related: Behind-the-scenes dirt on the nonstop sparring between Abramson and Arthur Sulzberger Jr.
• See also: Abramson's successor Dean Baquet is a college dropout.
• Pretty much unrelated: From 2004, "Talking Dirty With the Gray Lady" by Matthew Summers-Sparks.
• There are a lot of complicated reasons that Michael Sam was picked 249th overall in the NFL Draft.
• To save money, leave Phoenix—where median after-tax expenses surpass income—and move to Baltimore.
• "Into the Wild" tourists can now fly over Chris McCandless's deserted bus.
• The "ice cream truck song" is racist, and if you read this article you won't be able to hear the song the same way again.