May 9, 2016

• White House aide harangued for telling the NYTimes the Iran nuclear deal was sold on fiction.
• North Carolina to defy federal deadline on bathroom law, risking $4.8 billion in federal funding.
• "Rockstar" Democratic fundraiser Elizabeth Warren may find a Trump presidential run playing right into her hands.
• Kenya closes all of its refugee camps, displacing over 300,000 people.
• Bias and minor technicalities prevent thousands of immigrant children from attending school in the US.
• UK teachers say four-year-olds increasingly unfit to begin school, thanks to parents' smartphone addiction.
• Hanging Vogue pictures of Kate Middleton in the National Portrait Gallery "makes British art stupid."
• Now is the time for the British people to stand up for globalization, liberalization and openness, as much of the rest of the world reverts back to nationalism.
• See also: "The Evangelical Roots of American Economics."
• "Single-option aversion" finds people afraid to buy expensive items when only one option is presented.
• An unlucky driver keeps arriving in horror movie scenes.
• Singapore draws more travelers than India, Indonesia or the Philippines, thanks to business conferences.
• Examples of architectural details that make cities feel hostile—deliberately in many cases.
• Since Obama’s Keystone XL veto, 20 other fossil fuel projects have been cancelled.
• Nearly 24 years later, Jon Krakauer’s still trying to figure out what killed Into the Wild's Chris McCandless.
• Every episode of David Attenborough’s series Life, ranked.
• Data visualization of Hollywood’s blatant sexism towards female characters.
• Details from an appointment with Madam Boob Slapper, whose job is exactly what it sounds like.
• One in six US hospital beds are in Catholic hospitals, which prohibit a range of reproductive health care services.
• How a little-known crime bill signed by Bill Clinton 20 years ago gutted habeas corpus in America.
• Artist Moon Ribas has a small magnet in her elbow that lets her feel any earthquake as it happens in real time.
• After much anguish for hardcore fans, Radiohead's new album hits the web.