The Morning News

Now at three days, the UK breaks its 2017 coal-free record of 24 hours—its longest stretch since the 19th century.

↩︎ The Guardian 1h

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↩︎ The Morning News 2h

Facebook releases a 27-page community standards document to show users how inclusive and welcoming its services are.

↩︎ Facebook 2h

Photos from Pinecraft, Fla., where hundreds of Amish and Mennonite families have vacationed for nearly a century.

↩︎ The New Yorker 2h

Two years in, Finland to end its universal basic income pilot, retreating to work-based qualification for benefits.

↩︎ Time 2h

Alice Procter's Uncomfortable Art Tours pair 17th- and 18th-century art with the British Empire's ugly history.

↩︎ The Guardian 5h

Amazon is delivering packages to Volvo and GM car trunks that are enabled with remote unlocking systems.

↩︎ The Verge 5h

You knock on a door for directions, and you end up getting shot at. You pass through a convenience store for some Skittles, and you’re killed on your way back home.

For black Americans, every store is potentially another bad day at Starbucks.

↩︎ BuzzFeed

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Attention, Prime haters: your fellow humans believe Amazon is by far the best tech company for society.

↩︎ Recode 1d

More than half of the world's wealthy investors say they expect to live to 100.

↩︎ Bloomberg 1d

What it's like to seek marriage as a transgender Christian in Northeast India.

↩︎ Caravan 1d

Two meat processing companies, less than 100 miles apart, that only want the best for their customers—and each animated by a very different assessment of the risk posed by chronic wasting disease. Both say that science is the basis for their conclusion. And both are correct.

A prion disease is killing deer, but scientists don’t understand enough about it yet to know the risks to humans.

↩︎ Undark

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One problem with being president of the US—aka, the hardest job in the world—is the ever-expanding job description.

↩︎ The Atlantic 1d

Even mid-career professionals writing for big magazines have nothing nice to say about the state of freelancing.

↩︎ Medium 1d

Iconic female archetypes remade as 21st-century women.

↩︎ It's Nice That 1d

As marijuana becomes big (legitimate) business, say goodbye to the humble joint.

↩︎ The Ringer 1d

“Everything you know about America, the good and the bad, is all right there... There’s this amazing scientific technology, and progress on the forefront of science, and at the same time, extreme poverty. When they signed on to be radio free, they signed up for their own demise.”

Photos and a report from the National Radio Quiet Zone, home to families who are “electromagnetic hypersensitive.”

↩︎ Co.Design

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France's Macron begins a three-day trip to Washington to save the Iran deal. Friends call him "the Trump whisperer."

↩︎ The Guardian 1d

A 700-year-old banyan tree was saved intravenously by hundreds of saline bottles filled with pesticide.

↩︎ The Times of India 1d

Interest in "Earth Day" may be flagging, but it served its purpose now that "climate change" is a household word.

↩︎ Quartz 1d