When so bad = so good.

Dr. Ronny Jackson withdraws his nomination to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs, but remains on the job as the president’s physician. 1/25

The White House press corps has never had it so bad and so good at the same time. 2/25

Thousands of Germans don yarmulkes and march in several cities to protest an anti-Semitic attack in Berlin. 3/25

Trump called for hiring 5,000 more Border Patrol agents. Many of those likely to apply are Latinos. 4/25

A Tijuana man used to cross the border daily to study aerospace engineering. Now he works at NASA. 5/25

What's wrong with the intellectual left: conformity, religious ignorance, and a willful dumbness about the right. 6/25

Student activists trying to ignite #MeToo in China turn to blockchain to fight government censorship. (Also, if the mere mention of “blockchain” makes you wince, an article just for you.) 7/25

China has bought or invested in European assets amounting to at least $318 billion over the past 10 years. 8/25

The Bajau, from the Malay Archipelago, spend 60% of their work day underwater—and they've got the DNA to prove it. 9/25

Mosquitoes kill more people in a single day than sharks do in a century. 10/25

In a variety of powerful American institutions, "it can be as easy to find a man named John as it is to find a woman." 11/25

Many women frequently wear men's fashion. So why don't most men occasionally throw on a dress? 12/25

According to a study, most people are terrible judges of their own physical appearance. 13/25

A woman wears a "Power Vest" to the office for a week in order to understand what it’s like to be a tech/finance/sales bro. 14/25

Photographer Sayuri Ichida asks a professional ballet dancer to try being less beautiful. 15/25

Police have recovered a solid gold casket containing the heart of French queen Anne of Brittany. 16/25

Michelle McNamara’s book, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, deserves partial credit for the capture of the Golden State Killer suspect, says former husband Patton Oswalt. 17/25

Composer Philip Glass worked regularly as a plumber and a cab driver into his forties. 18/25

Chance the Rapper defends Kanye’s love of Trump: “Black people don’t have to be Democrats.” 19/25

See also: “Kanye West Doesn’t Care About Black People.” 20/25

America gets a new memorial this week: a powerful monument to confront its wretched history of lynching. 21/25

Inside Prop Heaven, where Hollywood rents its fake breads, ducks, deli platters, and so on. 22/25

Hackers demonstrate the "master key" they built for millions of electronically-locked hotel rooms. 23/25

An argument for “the digital self” as the single most valuable long-term commodity of the 21st century. 24/25

Amazon's new Alexa device is designed to get your kids shopping early. It can also require using the word "please." 25/25

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