May 2, 2017

Does your teen shop at Staples? DEA warns adults that drugs may be stashed in graphing calculators and highlighters. / The Washington Post

To understand how Zika crosses the placenta into the brain, doctors are studying twins where only one is affected. / The New York Times

Mattel’s new AI soothes your baby, then grows up to educate them and inspire the new Black Mirror. / Fast Company

Chicken spigot Purdue accelerates birds’ growth. Now it’s tweaking the model to create a slower (tastier) grower. / The New York Times

Facing a backlog of 15,000 applications, Congress allows 2,500 visas for Afghan interpreters who aided the US. / BuzzFeed

The community and exercise afforded by competitive running have a therapeutic impact on people with autism. / Runner’s World

Attorneys cite chanting “fuck capitalism” and owning “anti-fascist” flags in felony charges against J20 protesters. / DCist

“I feel like I’m in a stereotypical news network, like something out of Network.” A perhaps too rose-tinted MSNBC employee describes the not-entirely-successful straight newsification—and swift firings of black and brown employees—going on under new network head Andy Lack. / The Huffington Post

Acquisition of a blockchain company could allow Spotify and artists to circumvent labels and work together directly. / Attention Econo.me

Hate-view for the day: Fyre Festival’s laughable pitch deck, built entirely around social media influence. / Vanity Fair

Failure to return your shopping cart lowers the expectation that other social norms be followed. / Scientific American