* The New Yorker cover that would have run if the Affordable Health Care Act had been struck down. * How CNN and Fox screwed up the Supreme Court Obamacare decision. * Self-published science e-books are democratizing crackpottery; a review of Indivisible Earth: Consequences of Earth's Early Formation as
Large-format abstract photographs that use light to create celestial shapes we recognize—in some cases because they began as Christmas lights.
* Thousands face internet loss today as the FBI shuts down servers used by thieves. * Five signs of the Chinese economic apocalypse. * Maps measure America's recent scorching temperatures. * Washington farmers hire helicopters to blow-dry their cherries. * Innovation is now devoted to smaller-scale, less far-reaching, less conspicuous
* Job numbers fall short of expectations and barely improve over May. * Falling labor mobility in the U.S. may reflect a more efficient market. * Overhead photographs of Mexican workers carpooling. * Indian police are still administering illegal, dangerous "truth serum." * Inside the many conspiracy theories that say Arafat was
* Clinton says China and Russia must "pay a price" for blocking UN sanctions that could help topple Assad. * WSJ: In a stroke, Romney has contradicted Republicans across the country. * Romney raised $100m in June. * Global study finds Americans most likely to be anxious, followed by Colombians and New
* June 2009 Air France crash attributed to technical failure and human error. * Former teenage bomber remembers the Algerian fight for independence. * Inquiry says the Fukushima crisis was a preventable disaster resulting from collusion among regulators, the Japanese government, and the plant operator. * New Orleans now has the country's
* Nearly half of Americans don't know that the Supreme Court ruled on health care. * Iran mothballs its embargoed oil in a fleet of repainted tankers. * Ode to Rachel Maddow. * Tea Party rep says opponent should quit talking about her military service—she lost her legs in Iraq—because
* Emails show Paterno played a key role in Sandusky’s never being reported to authorities. * The Euro Cup proves you don't need good politics to host a global sporting event—no one cares. * Washington DC's Vietnamese restaurants rely on Hispanic cooks for survival. * Total biomass of
* The U.S. economy is pointing downward judging by office furniture and industrial chemicals. * Assad regrets downing Turkish jet. * The longer the euro area’s debt crisis drags on, the more it resembles a medieval rack of economic torture. * Garbage scavengers of Athens now seen as harbingers of Greece'
* NFL fans prefer watching games at home; NFL responds by offering free wifi and special apps. * Celebrate the iPhone's birthday by turning yours off. * Graphic explains how to operate a rotary telephone. * We mostly ignore wallpaper these days, but it has a long history of social mobility. * Hysteria
