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June 15, 2015

Harnessing the sun with the blackest paint in the world.

The World in 2100, According to NASA’s New Big Dataset.

No, We Won’t Leave You Alone.

June 14, 2015

1943 Buick M18 Hellcat, $250,000.

Is there any limit to temperature?

What difference can a few degrees make? Look to the West’s vanishing snowpack.

The new normal of childhood obesity represents a disconnection from the harmful reality of childhood obesity and displaces the value of childhood health too far behind adult’s pursuits of utility.

June 13, 2015

What remains of the Manhattan Project.

Why Does Obama Want This Trade Deal So Badly?

Female UFC Fighter Explains to Man That He Sexually Harassed the Wrong Woman. “Explained” the same way I used to “explain” things to people attempting to bully me.

Customizability Is The Enemy.

The migration of anatomically modern humans.

In fact, across all states, interior designers, barbers, cosmetologists, and manicurists all face greater average licensing requirements than do EMTs.

June 12, 2015

snopes.com: Time Magazine’s Definition of a Perfect Body in 1955.

Dear SJWs. Funny that both the MRAs and SJWS now believe that they are entitled to people being attracted to them.

Missouri students slam curfew for women: It’s on the ‘Mount Rushmore of University Incompetence.’

Oregon women can soon get a year of birth control at a time.

June 11, 2015

Nobel Prize winner resigns a position after sexist comments publicized.

The Death Of The Von Neumann Architecture. Part of the slow death of general-purpose computing.

Correction: Plants Will Not Flourish as the World Warms.

June 10, 2015

Teen pregnancies — and abortions — plummeted after Hawaii ditched abstinence-based sex ed.

Experts Say Best Option Now Is Keeping Nation As Comfortable As Possible Till End.

Two Lanes to Accokeek.

As late as the 1970s, textiles still enjoyed the aura of science. Since then, however, we’ve stopped thinking of them as a technical achievement. In today’s popular imagination, fabric entirely belongs to the frivolous world of fashion.

June 9, 2015

What Makes a Woman?

Insane Heat Wave in Alaska Put Temperatures Higher Than in Arizona.

Here Are America’s Top 50 Health Care Thugs.

How to win any argument: pseudo-scientific neuro-gibberish.

Bacterial handprint.

That Weirdo Announcer-Voice Accent: Where It Came From and Why It Went Away.

June 8, 2015

Manspreading: the rise of broken windows liberalism.

The Death And Life Of Truth In The Internet Age.

Three Stars Were Exiled From their Galaxies to Explode in a Cosmic Void.

What links the depths of the ocean to the hearts of dying stars?

Wealth can’t necessarily buy a better brain, but deprivation can result in a weakened one.

Suicide rate of female military veterans is called ‘staggering.’

Jill Trent, Science Sleuth.

June 7, 2015

Mozilla needs to make up its mind.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs. Jon Stewart: Islam, liberals, and the media’s dangerous double standard.

Your boss wants to control your vote.

Chronic overeating impairs hepatic glucose uptake and disposition.

June 6, 2015

Here’s Why Libertarians Are Mostly Men.

June 5, 2015

Diamond Nights: Africa’s Oldest Trees Photographed Against Starry Night Skies by Beth Moon.

What Would Cities Look Like without Greedy Landlords and Property Development Sharks?

Coming Soon to Us All: The Choice Worse Than Sophie’s.

The Village and The Village.

FBI official: Companies should help us ‘prevent encryption above all else.’

Incentive structure.

June 4, 2015

Let’s Take This Open Floor Plan to the Next Level.

The Hypocrisy of the Internet Journalist.

Displaced IT workers are being silenced.

Is Fibromyalgia a Made-Up Illness? Almost certainly psychosomatic, but not fake.

Should we care if the human race goes extinct? It will, and I don’t care.

TSA Agents To Now Simply Stand At Checkpoints And Remind Passengers That We All Die Someday.

How Much Do Skyscrapers Actually Move?

June 3, 2015

Knapping, Learning and Language: an Experimental Approach to Assessing Palaeolithic Cognition.

These Workers Have a New Demand: Stop Watching Us.

Reduced public funding for basic research leaves U.S. in the scientific dust.

Once you’re in the top 1 percent, your tax rate gets lower as you get richer.

FIFA 16, women’s football, and internet outrage.

We need a sexual revolution in economics.

Retailers Keep Workers On Call And Unpaid. And are evil. Did we mention that? Pure evil.

School kitchen manager fired for giving lunches to hungry students.

What value is a roaring economy to ordinary Americans who are overworked, overstressed, unable to spend time with their families, and not even reaping the financial benefits for their hardship? And the economy ain’t even roaring.

Pan consoling Psyche.

June 2, 2015

Rightie Fantasia.

Wall Street still blames everybody else for the financial crisis.

The Tampon: A History.

How Is Critical ‘Life or Death’ Software Tested?

College students are not customers.

Family Spends Relaxing Weekend Destroying Outdoors.

June 1, 2015

Cultural fit…has shifted from systematic analysis of who will thrive in a given workplace to snap judgments by managers about who they’d rather hang out with.

What it really means to rely on food stamps and welfare.

Losing Control.

Unfortunately, it’s not simply books by women that are ignored by prize committees, but also books about women.

Impossible Knowledge: Are You an Expert?

Cruelty and Perversity: Postprandial Reflections on the PEN Protesters.

FBI: 80 Percent Of Police Officers Are Overweight. See, they have to shoot you because no way are they chasing you down.

Call for an urgent rethink of the ‘health at every size’ concept.

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