May 26, 2016

• Two years into the US-led air war against the Islamic State, we're only now hitting significant targets.
• NASA calls off today's plan to inflate the International Space Station's new experimental habitat module.
• France's 19 nuclear plants go on strike.
• Across government, ancient computers aren’t just costing tons of money—they’re written in code that isn’t even taught anymore.
• FDA issues notice: food labelers can just call “evaporated cane juice” what it is: sugar!
• Seventeen conflicts over water preview “tomorrow’s thirsty future.”
• Underground Neanderthal sculptures turn out to be much older than any human cave painting.
• Advocates for prison reform sent to solitary in Massachusetts in apparent attempt to silence their activism.
• Turning the tables on companies that stalk the social media profiles of activists.
• Peter Thiel's "champerty"—third-party litigation funding, in this case against Gawker—"is well within the parameters of third-party involvement in lawsuits."
• Obama extols hip-hop in Vietnam.
• Obama's plan to visit Hiroshima tomorrow highlights failures by Japan and the US to examine the past.
• We know Barack loves basketball and golf—could Hillary's likeability problem be solved with more hobbies?
• In case you missed it: How to watch the first week of the French Open online.
• Mesmerizing, rarely seen William Klein documentary The French goes behind the scenes at Rolland Garros in 1981.
• The hot color for book covers right now is yellow, because it stands out in online shops.
• Television executive explains what it's like to have lupus.
• Losing a treasured family pet is hard—particularly when the pet's barely treasured in the first place.
• For the first time in more than 130 years, 18- to 34-year-olds are more likely to live with their parents than a partner.
• Fascinating profile of a 13-year-old’s life in/on/with social media.
• Giant music box in Budapest plays the Harry Potter theme when humans walk in its hamster wheel.