Thy oyster knife.

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The European Union announces that American travelers will need a visa to visit from now on (post-Trump). 1/19

The latest action heroes in Gotham: female building inspectors equipped with rappelling equipment. 2/19

"TelAbortion" enables women to have the procedure at home, but with medical oversight. 3/19

Neoclassicism meets anime in Cristina BanBan's paintings of the female figure. 4/19

Many of the biggest stars in US women's soccer sue US Soccer for gender discrimination. 5/19

“I don’t think people should know what I’m thinking,” she tells me eventually. “I’m hiding you from my thoughts.” Naomi Osaka is “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside a blistering forehand.” 6/19

A poem for your weekend: Eve L. Ewing on "what I mean when I say I'm sharpening my oyster knife." 7/19

A tribute to Oscar Levant finds him to be much more than just Hollywood’s piano-playing sidekick. 8/19

A new travel experience: tours of cities that specialize in finding suitably Instagrammable backdrops. 9/19

Rather than wish for a “good death,” we may want to start thinking about a “fitting death.” 10/19

An investigation into paramilitary forces hired by the World Wide Fund for Nature to fight poaching finds people tortured and killed. 11/19

Meet the dog who made the world's first canine ascent of a 7,000-meter Himalayan peak. 12/19

About 45 million pounds of plastics make their way to New Orleans every year for Mardi Gras. 13/19

"Counter to the usual thinking," teams with many collaborators are less likely to publish disruptive new science. 14/19

The latest trend on YouTube: being transparent about payola. 15/19

Paul Manafort’s lenient sentence demonstrates the gross inequities in our criminal justice system. 16/19

Here are many ways that Manafort has not lived “an otherwise blameless life.” 17/19

A new study finds there are more mass shootings in states with weaker gun laws. 18/19

A moderated conversation between a Proud Boys leader and an antifa activist doesn’t go very well. 19/19

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