May 20, 2016

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Oklahoma’s legislation to outlaw abortions is so “blatantly unconstitutional” that it’s hardly enforceable.

McDonald’s reports that higher pay and better benefits have boosted their bottom line.

Verizon strike faces challenges indicative of labor’s larger struggles.

Colonialism is alive in Western Sahara; thousands live in camps while Morocco and UN stand off in decades-long debate over autonomy.

Current Chinese immigrants, more likely to come from Mandarin-speaking upper classes, prefer suburbs to Chinatowns.

An injured Roger Federer won’t play at the French Open—the first Grand Slam he’ll miss this century.

“The pursuit of a perfectly called game may not be merely inconvenient, but it may also be fundamentally impossible.”

Streaming has been such a commercial dud for musicians that in 2015, they earned more from vinyl sales.

Psychologists consistently find that we appreciate “natural” talents more deeply than those “earned” by practice.

Because Earth is not a perfect sphere, Ecuador’s Mount Chimborazo dwarfs Everest.

From physics emerges a theory of bi-directional causality.

We use our entire brain—and not just the temporal lobe, as once believed—to group words by meaning. #video

America’s first memory champion relies on visualization and narrative.

Computers will soon not just remember, but learn, fundamentally altering user experience.

Winner of the 2016 Commonwealth Prize for best short story from Africa just got published online: “The Pigeon.”

“She is a pixe­lated, auto­mated portrait of myself. She is my data doppelganger.”

Jennifer Berman tries to meet the Jennifer Bermans who’ve trumped her domain names and Gmail addresses.