May 17, 2016

• April is the seventh month in a row to break temperature records.
• German electrical grid nearly overburdened with all the renewable energy being produced.
• Fifty years after the Cultural Revolution, China is torn between a promise of progress and a tether to Mao.
• The Cultural Revolution—hell for millions—still echoes in Xi Jinping’s rule.
• Oregon and Kentucky choose today between Sanders and Clinton.
• "Gun-wielding Chinese-American Donald Trump supporter" runs for US Congress with Google's logo.
• If one visionary at USPS had his way, Gmail would've been a public utility.
• Inside Pantone's factory headquarters in New Jersey, where global standards are set for color.
• In case you missed it: As of May 11, NOAA's national weather forecasts will no longer yell at you.
• Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo area is struck by lightning nearly 300 days a year.
• Yellowstone visitors attempt to save bison calf from freezing—and by doing so condemn it to a tragic end.
• Airline travelers have increased while TSA employment has been slashed; long lines are mathematically inevitable.
• How Portland can avoid San Francisco's housing crisis: quit catering every policy to gentrifiers.
• Reporters arrested in Ferguson receive gag order, but win provisions allowing for recording of police
• As Zika spreads, scientists track a horrifying, crucial question: Can mosquitoes learn?
• Australian athletes at the Rio Olympics to carry Zika-proof condoms, coated with an anti-viral gel.
• Olympic villages are known for sex.
• Physician Dorothee Deiss photographs people considered to be outside the dominant ideal of beauty.
• “Tinder for fumeheads” matches you with dates based on your body odor.
• Kickstarter of the day: Racquet, "a new, quarterly tennis magazine."
• Analysis of jokes sought on the web.
• In the 1660s, German alchemist Hennig Brand intended to turn urine into gold. Instead he discovered phosphorus.