May 6, 2015

• Baltimore residents notice strange planes that turn out to be providing surveillance support from FBI to police.
• Doonesbury's Garry Trudeau: Great satire doesn't demean disenfranchised minorities, it attacks the powerful.
• Iranian-Americans confounded by census race questions that code them as white despite generations of exclusion.
• Harry Reid threatens to filibuster "Fast Track" if highways aren't taken care of first—he's only one of many looking to get a slice of TPP.
• Though most of the attacks on the Clinton Foundation are bunk, that doesn't invalidate transparency concerns.
• Undecided UK voter? There's an app for that.
• How mandatory drug sentencing created a generation of aging, ailing inmates.
• Labyrinths are becoming a new kind of therapy.
• For the first time, scientists capture an acoustic image of a thunderclap—by creating an artificial lightning bolt.
• Astronomers measure the distance to the farthest—and therefore oldest—known galaxy.
• The leaving New York essay to end all leaving New York essays probably doesn't involve leaving New York at all.
• Moving to a better neighborhood as a toddler boosts children's welfare; transitioning while a teen could do opposite.
• A calorie-counting smart plate embodies everything wrong with tech's solutionist mindset.
• The private Silicon Valley school that's hacking education.
• On rediscovering Jane Fonda's workout videos and reconnecting with a lost parent.