May 4, 2017

The Oatmeal advises on dealing with the impulse to fight when presented with facts that challenge your worldview. / The Oatmeal

How to spot the innovative Google Docs phishing scam, and what to do if you clicked. / The Verge

Citing doping uncertainty, track and field authority proposes stripping all pre-2005 world records. / CNN

The House GOP thinks it can pass the revised AHCA today—but the bill is still awful for preexisting conditions. / Politico

“There was a certain tyrant of Troizen who, ‘wishing to do away with any conspiracies and plots against himself, issued an order to the local people that no one was to speak to anyone else either publicly or privately.’” Know your Greek and Roman tales, or be doomed to live them. / The Washington Post

Tillerson clarifies “America First” stance—US ideals won’t set foreign policy. / Reuters

Alt-right punching bag to build a media company with partners from Sweden, “the most alt-right” European nation. / BuzzFeed

“The best thing about human nature might just be its unwillingness to surrender to the worst side of itself.” Jeff VanderMeer, famous for the surreal “Southern Reach Trilogy,” goes conventional in his new book’s plot, but subversive in ambition: to upend the apocalypse genre’s usual messages about heroics. / The New Yorker

California plans to combine cap-and-trade program and carbon pricing policies in a revolutionary environmental push. / Vox

The “fidget spinner” got popular after its inventor let her patent lapse. She couldn’t afford the $400 renewal fee. / Guardian

Hundreds of thousands of Filipina women leave their children behind to join households in the UAE as domestic help. / Pulitzer Center

Water treatment facilities don’t filter out amphetamines, which reach rivers, inflame insects, and suppress algae. / Ars Technica

Like Bathochordaeus, I also float along, carried by the current wherever it will take me, content in the huge mucous house I build. / YouTube