The Morning News

It's not a surprise, but there's evidence to show grade inflation happens more often at wealthier schools.

↩︎ Quartz 10h

For a moment, I thought of storming out, but I didn’t have the courage, just a mountain of student loan bills. Instead I wrote some gibberish about the long and storied presumption of innocence.

A former Senator’s speechwriter regrets crafting a defense of her boss’s “yes” vote on Clarence Thomas.

↩︎ Washington Post

10h

Your odds of being hit by a meteorite are low, but your chances improve if you live in the United States.

↩︎ Displayr 10h

How to look like you're trying to end sexual harassment.

↩︎ McSweeney's 10h

Researchers found giving an octopus MDMA made it more social—but haven't answered why they think this is ethical.

↩︎ Quartz 11h

If it happened (although it did not happen), it would not have been wrong. If it happened (it may have happened; he did not do it, but it may have happened), it was only to be expected. These things happen. (He did not do it.)

Alexandra Petri on the verbal gymnastics politicians are employing to preemptively excuse Kavanaugh.

↩︎ Washington Post

11h

The remnants of Hurricane Florence appear to be feeding a "zombie" storm that could head back to the Carolinas.

↩︎ Bloomberg 11h

Pet stores likely sickened customers by giving healthy puppies antibiotics, fostering antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

↩︎ STAT 11h

An appreciation of kidney stones: "a minute-by-minute, layered history of the kidney’s physiology."

↩︎ The New York Times 11h

At least 13 different Twitter accounts are telling stories of abuse as a means of selling diet pills.

↩︎ Gizmodo 11h

Three years after a ban on tobacco displays, the number of children in England buying cigarettes has dropped by 17%.

↩︎ The Guardian 11h

"What my life has been about is in showing the potential for human beings, to not be the victims of their biographies—not their biological biographies, not their social biographies."

The psychologist behind the marshmallow test later corrected people on what it shows—and mostly, what it doesn’t.

↩︎ NPR

11h

There have been 262 mass shootings in America in the first 263 days of 2018.

↩︎ Vox 11h

Non-binary individuals find gendered languages, like German, the hardest to use to express themselves.

↩︎ Deep Baltic 15h

Driverless meets #vanlife in a new concept from automakers: the detachable, autonomous mobile living room.

↩︎ The Architect's Newspaper 1d

“The Japanese taught the Americans and all the others how to catch tuna in commercial quantities, and they are the best fishermen in the game. As a result, the packers vie with each other in providing them with attractive quarters close to their respective plants.”

The history of the tuna sandwich is an all-American story—i.e., stocked with immigrants and racism.

↩︎ Taste

1d

"Numbers stations"—broadcasts that repeat numbers—are spy messages. You can find them, but you won't crack them.

↩︎ War on the Rocks 1d

"Found Sounds from the Edge of the Earth." Think ice cracking beneath Antarctica and Taiwanese frog songs.

↩︎ Bandcamp 1d

Fact-check: It's very much the FBI's "thing" to investigate something like Ford's claim against Kavanaugh.

↩︎ NBC News 1d

Pakistani officials release ex-Prime Minister Sharif from prison only two months into a 10-year corruption sentence.

↩︎ Reuters 1d