May 7, 2014

• Mexican farmers stop planting marijuana—thanks to decriminalization in the US—and turn to poppies for heroin.
• Zuma and the ANC to win today's election in South Africa despite widely felt shame and disenchantment.
• Somali Islamists blamed for two days of attacks in Kenya that killed at least seven and critically injured more than 30.
• President Obama dispatches team to Nigeria to help find the missing girls.
• Monica Lewinsky says in Vanity Fair, "it's time to burn the beret," and by doing so, she's doing Hillary a big favor.
• Thanks, Beyoncé, but if we're verbing, I think you meant 'Bill Clinton'd all on my gown,' not 'Monica Lewinsky'd.
• Factory girl: one summer of overnights, glueing connectors, and coiling faster.
• Study finds the type of college that graduates attend doesn't matter later on to their workplace engagement or well-being.
• Stanford becomes first major university to purge its endowments and pension funds of fossil fuel investments, coal in particular.
• New frontiers in synthetic biology: cancer-killing nanorobots.
• Suffering from ongoing drought in Texas, Wichita Falls may become America's first city where half of the drinking water comes from wastewater.
• Housing discrimination was perfected in Chicago.
• New findings say saturated fat doesn't cause heart disease—but that doesn't mean you should eat cheeseburgers unchecked.
• Seeing the US population grow sicker and fatter while adhering to official dietary guidelines has put nutrition authorities in an awkward position.
• When people display their middle initials, it increases their perceived social status, and positively biases inferences about their intellectual capacity.
• Sarcasm explained.
• Unrelated: Instagram photo catches Carmelo Anthony leering at Rihanna.