Sound and vision.

Of the 24 Democrats currently running for president, only 10 mention reproductive rights on their websites. 1/15

In border wall planning, Trump prefers sharp, injury-prone spikes rather than field-tested anti-climbing surfaces. 2/15

Trump's "Tech Bias Reporting Tool" is almost certainly a ruse to lure people into being targeted by the Trump campaign. 3/15

A nationwide survey finds broad support for various aspects of the Green New Deal. 4/15

A map estimates the amounts and locations of plastic floating in the world's oceans. 5/15

In 2018, the US birth rate dropped for a fourth consecutive year, to its lowest level in 32 years. 6/15

Researchers find evidence bedbugs are much older than previously thought, and probably dined on dinosaurs. 7/15

Photos of concert halls that make the most of acoustics and aesthetics. 8/15

As Jeff Koons breaks the price record for a living artist's work, billionaires push millionaires out of the art market. 9/15

A new, terrifying scam: virtual kidnappings, where no one is taken, yet perpetrators frighten loved ones into paying ransoms. 10/15

The AI-created version of Joe Rogan's voice is unreal. (Literally.) 11/15

"AI is quite successful in poetry because it's able to create something that leaves enough ambiguity so the reader can use a lot of their creativity to bring the poems to life. But when you turn to [longform] literature, AI has been quite unsuccessful." An interview with Marcus du Sautoy, whose new book encourages artists to view AI as a collaborator, rather than a threat. 12/15

Generative poetry based on user-submitted terms. 13/15

"They were disparate, alienated young men attracted to like-minded souls. They wanted something offbeat and off the beaten track, and the shop supplied this. They probably saw the shop as being a beacon in the rather bleak Manchester of the early '70s." Excerpted from a new oral history of Joy Division: how the legendary band formed, thanks to hanging around bookstores. 14/15

Obscured views of a city, photographed by John MacLean. 15/15

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