May 12, 2015

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Another earthquake hits Nepal: With a magnitude of 7.3 and two weeks after a 7.8 quake killed more than 8,000.

Jan Morris, who covered Edmund Hillary’s 1953 climb, says it’s time to end our unhealthy obsession with Mt. Everest.

See also: An interactive graphic makes you feel how astonishingly high Mt. Everest really is.

Main call-tracking program exposed by Snowden leak ruled illegal.

Startups chase investors at TechCrunch Disrupt, though no one seems convinced it’s worth it.

Spending driven by vanity is projected to be a durable source of growth in developed and emerging markets.

“[NFL] halftime segments were reportedly part of paid promotions under federal advertising contracts for the military.”

Clinton advisor who helped create our current wealth inequality proposes “rewriting” the rules to undo the damage.

Underrepresentation of women and minorities in clinical trials contributes to gap in medical outcomes.

Cuba’s celebrated lung cancer vaccine is coming to the US—for decades the Castros prioritized biotech.

San Francisco is getting a four-story beachfront monolith that gives you WiFi to raise skin cancer awareness.

You can’t buy land on the Moon, no military activities, and other laws of space.

“What these bewildering scenarios have in common is a perception of Texas as a battlefield in a constant war.”

GM’s ignition switch now attributed to 100 deaths; expect that number to rise as the coverup unravels.

Suspicious of foreign funding, Modi may revoke Indian operations of Greenpeace, Ford Foundation among others.

Panama Canal expansion will undercut the Port of Los Angeles’s dominant position.

Real crime…is scarcely addressed. David Simon on our criminal justice system’s modern gulag.

“Sesame Street‘s Oscar is all thinkable archetypes of the outsider, scrunched into the shape of a safe cartoon.”