Updates on the push to retake Mosul from the Islamic State. / The Guardian Selling nothing but bonhomie, Canada decided we need some cheering up right now (what with this terrible election) and came together in a video to tell us why we’re loved. / Politico Nicholas Kristof puts Clinton in
We went through years of seeing every hack in America reduce dramatic Red Sox playoff baseball to prefabricated invocations of the Curse of the Bambino, and hindsight has only proven how silly and counterproductive it was for writers to hug their clichés rather than write meaningful and interesting things about
Selling nothing but bonhomie, Canada decided we need some cheering up right now (what with this terrible election) and came together in a video to tell us why we're loved. O, Canada...
The Obama administration and Eric Holder’s Department of Justice, under pressure from Clinton-connected airline lobbyists and Rahm Emanuel, failed despite efforts to block the US Airways-American airline merger—which has enriched executives and hiked prices for consumers. / ProPublica Fiber and beans might make you fart more, but
Fiber and beans might make you fart more, but don't blame them for the smell. Protein is the real culprit.
Extremely rare footage of a blue whale nursing its calf, as captured recently off the California coast. “Blue whales nurse all the time but everything happens under water. We don’t get to see many blue whales and their calves in the first place. To see a blue whale and
Infographic: Every spell cast in the Harry Potter books, mapped by word position. / public.tableau.com The ACLU won court support for its rebuke of Baltimore police’s method of tracking #BlackLivesMatter protesters by deploying facial recognition technology to social media feeds. Facebook and Twitter promptly abrogated the services that
What it’s like to be 14 in a new school, a new city away from home—and the wrong ethnicity in a divided country.
Of all McDonald’s troubles, a copyright infringement over some in-store wallpapering doesn’t seem so major. But a lawsuit from the family of a graffiti artist is a problem for them, and it should be for us, too, because it’s time to set a precedent on the
McDonald’s is curtailing Ronald McDonald’s public appearances in light of the rash of clown-clad pranksters scaring kids across the US and UK, with some “killer clowns” even showing up at the chain. Look: He was creepy before the whole clown thing. ↩︎ posted Oct. 13, 2016 The Impossible
