Placebo buttons and the toil of glamour.
From Chicago to Australia, more greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere increase the chances of abnormal temperatures. 1/20
See also: “Yes, fire is used to keep Chicago trains running in the cold.” 2/20
Pictures of Australia's recent heat wave, which follows the warmest December on record. 3/20
Equipment owned by California’s three largest utilities ignited more than 2,000 fires in 3.5 years. They were fined nine times. 4/20
Your weekly white paper: Last year we threw away 48.5 million tons of e-waste—the world's fastest-growing waste stream. 5/20
Prime Minister Theresa May heads back to the EU to try to win concessions for a better Brexit deal. 6/20
When Trump's FCC killed net neutrality, it promised investment, job creation, and broadband growth in underserved areas. Alas. 7/20
President Trump calls his intelligence agencies “naive.” At the same time, he seems to ignore the points where he and the agencies agree. 8/20
Senate Republicans plan to rebuke Trump today and try to take back some of the Senate’s power over shaping foreign policy. 9/20
Trump will spend the rest of his life “trying to demonstrate that he was right about whatever it was that he said or did before.” 10/20
On Malcolm Gladwell's recent reporting on pot and schizophrenia: "a smorgasbord of logical fallacies and data-free fear-mongering." 11/20
Emergency calls to veterinarians are up 765% thanks to the popularity of weed edibles. 12/20
In cities across America, the odds that the police will solve a shooting are ”abysmally low and dropping.” 13/20
Why are millennials so unhappy? Because performative workaholism—aka, "toil glamour"—is now a lifestyle, despite its empty rewards. 14/20
RIP Florence Knoll Bassett, the designer who made office space a conscious artistic statement. 15/20
Placebo buttons at road crossings, like in NYC, make it harder for pedestrians to believe real ones actually exist, like in LA. 16/20
"It’s no small feat to write to me." An interview with the man behind Instagram's "The Aids Memorial." 17/20
iRobot unveils the Terra, a lawn-cutting robot with Roomba-like controls. 18/20
Amazon Prime's movie library is more than 4.5x bigger than that of Netflix, but with far fewer titles that people actually like. 19/20
Chef Roy Choi finally responds to the bad press around the closure of his healthy-fast-food concept restaurant. 20/20
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