May 15, 2015

• China's on track to finish 2015 with the biggest reduction in both coal use and CO2 ever recorded by a single country.
• In summary, Jeb Bush had a very bad week trying to talk about Iraq and his brother.
• Coup fails against Burundi's president; coup leaders and followers hope "not to be killed" after a month of unrest.
• Harriet Tubman was too good of an American to get stuck now on the $20 bill.
• Coates: Obama is happy to moralize about black families, but doesn't put forward specific policies to help them.
• The constitutional system is rigged for rural interests over urban ones... Mass transit goes begging while farm subsidies flourish.
• Today on TMN: The fail-safe in our justice system is broken.
• B. B. King, dead at 89, was revered for changing the way the electric guitar is played.
• Related: Highlights from King's repertoire.
• In the future of public radio and podcasting, what interests the public ≠ the public interest.
• Self-driving cars from Google will hit the road in Northern California this summer, with a 25 mph speed limit.
• "Optogenetics" makes highly specific brain cells photosensitive and then activates them using flashes of light.
• Opa for the opah, first fish known to be warm-blooded.
• Times readers are informed that a Harvard-trained biochemist is tall, blonde, and blue-eyed prior to any mention of her scientific career.
• Champion young runner struggles to fight/embrace/flee her Tourette syndrome.
• Some people with multiple personalities don't believe it's a syndrome—they want everyone in their system to be seen as people.
• Health care from a nurse's point of view.
• Teeangers going to prom this weekend may want to stay away from the sunroof.