May 29, 2014

• There was nothing in Rodger's background that would have prevented him from being able to buy a gun.
• In the wake of the Santa Barbara shootings, women create a website aggregating articles showing what happens "When Women Refuse."
• One reason men were surprised by the #YesAllWomen stories: Men hide their misogyny from other men.
• Snowden wasn't entirely correct when he said the NSA could turn on your phone.
• Here's the latest on insect repellent: DEET won't kill you and those wristbands still don't work.
• Ninety percent of Wikipedia medical articles tested contain significant errors.
• When the libertarian at the heart of the bitcoin community was hacked, rather than paying a ransom he put a bounty on the hacker's arrest.
• Emails from his frat days reveal Snapchat's co-founder is "kind of a dick"—and as it turns out, his own ideal user.
• Google's new self-driving car—built without a steering wheel—could be the safest on the road.
• A study of worldwide test scores among 15-year-olds correlates higher marks with more books in the home.
• London’s 10 richest boroughs are worth more than Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland put together.
• Whether breast milk benefits adults is up for debate, while those who want it must navigate contaminated supplies and creepers.
• Maya Angelou in conversation with George Plimpton.
• At age 14, Maya Angelou became San Francisco's first female African-American cable car conductor.
• Maya Angelou reads her poem "And Still I Rise."
• A letter Angelou wrote, at age 78, to her younger self.
• A lovely NYT profile of poet Patricia Lockwood, author of "Rape Joke."
• Related: Lockwood's "Rape Joke."