The price of pollution.
Senate passes a budget resolution protecting a planned $1.5 trillion tax cut—that's been crafted behind closed doors—from Democratic filibuster. 1/23
In addition, the budget resolution passage leaves Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge open to oil exploration. 2/23
New research finds that diseases caused by pollution—mostly asthma, cancer, and heart disease—result in one in six deaths worldwide. 3/23
“For once in your life, listen to me and don’t play your political conniving games with the science to favor the registrants. I have cancer and I don’t want these serious issues to go unaddressed before I go to my grave.” The EPA says glysophate, the chemical in Roundup, isn’t carcinogenic, but not all its scientists agree. 4/23
NIH emails from last fall show battles over renewing firearms research—one director wanted to omit guns altogether. 5/23
See also: “More Home Runs Are Hit With Guns Than Baseball Bats.” 6/23
There's no official US version yet of what happened in Niger that resulted in US troop deaths, and the lack of transparency so far has echoes of Benghazi. 7/23
Before protesters cut short Richard Spencer's University of Florida appearance, the school's bell tower played "Lift Every Voice and Sing"—aka the "Black American National Anthem." 8/23
French Elle puts a murder victim on its cover after a French rock magazine featured her killer. 9/23
California firefighters use a tool called a Pulaski—part axe, part hoe, designed by a firefighter in 1913. 10/23
"I'm no longer scared of Rusty," says Brownsville youth of the Mexican-American luring immigrants to call ICE. 11/23
The stock market isn't the economy. Just look at 1987's crash—the GDP didn't actually suffer so much. 12/23
NPR discovers that a Trump golf course's charitable giving is wildly inflated, just like Trump's own charity claims. 13/23
Research suggests ride-sharing increases car traffic because fewer trips are made on foot or using public transit. 14/23
Some flowers have a blue halo, visible only to bees, produced not by pigment but by microscopic structures. 15/23
With new telescopes and faster processing, by 2035 we should know whether extraterrestrials exist. 16/23
LEGO to release a playset of key NASA women, with Nancy Grace, Margaret Hamilton, Mae Jemison, and Sally Ride. 17/23
“It’s a computing version of what Veruca Salt made her dad and his poor factory workers do in Willy Wonka. A brute force search for a golden ticket (or in this case, a golden number).” A public explanation of cryptocurrency, addressed to Jamie Dimon. 18/23
A truly insane story—practically ripped from the pages of Shakespeare—of a catfishing scheme that ends in romance. 19/23
Our word of the week: a "catastrophist," which is someone hired to model the worst of all risks. 20/23
From 2012: Mike Deri Smith speaks with natural disaster experts about how scared we should be. 21/23
How Rear Window presaged television channel surfing and, later, internet voyeurism and binge-watching. 22/23
A history of the worst games in Jeopardy! history, including this week's one-dollar champion. 23/23
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