May 19, 2016

• EgyptAir flight crashes over the Mediterranean; "terrorism more likely than technical failure."
• Labor Relations Board rules that companies aren’t allowed to pressure workers to be relentlessly positive.
• Restaurants ditch the no-tipping movement.
• Whatever destroyed Venezuela's economy, the result is "one of the most severe humanitarian crises" we face.
• Why “Make America Denmark Again” won't happen economically.
• Accounting for the Great Enrichment is the deepest puzzle of the social sciences.
• "It's Gotten A Lot Harder To Act Like Whiteness Doesn't Shape Our Politics."
• Bill Clinton tells GQ's Jason Zengerle to read between the lines for his thoughts on Sanders and students.
• Eyebrows go up when CBS’s eight new TV shows star Katherine Heigl and a bunch of white men.
• Netflix uses 200 linguists to translate Chelsea Handler's jokes into 20 languages within 12 hours of taping.
• Wall Street Journal tool shows "red" and "blue" political search results from Facebook.
• Forget Facebook Live—the next publishing platform is Messenger.
• Jenna Wortham: Messages that include little actual messaging are the future, or, Why I love Snapchat.
• Berklee pianist turns familiar ringtones into a classical medley.
• Face-recognition software puts Russia at the forefront of the post-anonymity dystopia.
• Beijing International Airport sets up women-only security lines.
• First girl rescued from the hundreds kidnapped by Boko Haram to meet with Nigeria's president.
• "Patent application for a genital-operated bathroom door locking mechanism to help protect children."
• Ben & Jerry's debuts new "Empower Mint" flavor at historical African-American college in North Carolina.
• Google's new "art camera" travels the world taking ultra-high-resolution "gigapixel" images of paintings.
• Archive.org releases treasure trove of early and recent hip-hop mixtapes.
• From Tolstoy to Rushdie, when authors steal identities, they get awards, not jail time.
• Yellowstone park rangers lose their minds when tourists try to save an eagle with balloons.