May 23, 2016

• Bayer wants to buy Monsanto and create world's largest GMO supplier.
• Obama ends military weapons embargo of Vietnam—possibly as leverage against an encroaching China.
• Until last week, the term "Oriental" still appeared in federal law—now it will be replaced by "Asian American."
• Vulnerabilities in our perception are as integral to product design as they are to a magician's act.
• Overtime rule is Tom Perez's big moment as Secretary of Labor, but it could be a preview to his next job: Vice President.
• Our gun rules come from post-Independence subsidies meant to boost the early US Army.
• Government immigration data is currently sold, rather than freely available. A reporter is suing to change that.
• Stupendous legacy of corruption cripples Florida town.
• Pakistani education has found a new extreme in the balance between memorization and understanding.
• Airbnb hosts reject black visitors. Brown v. Board could be used to stop that.
• Depression lifts for a 93-year-old man after he gets back together with his old jazz combo.
• Diagnosing millennial malaise through a terrible Zac Efron movie about EDM.
• Sean Penn has a terrible movie too—one that has no time for the lives of the Africans whose suffering it puts on display.
• Is the Angry Birds movie about Trump? Hitler? Will we ever know or care?
• For years, amateur codebreakers have obsessed over a mysterious subreddit that only posts strings of numbers.
• Quit thinking of your brain as a computer.
• Marimba-playing robot jams with a robot-arm drummer.