August 5, 2015

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China outsources to South Carolina, where higher wages are offset by subsidized cotton, tax breaks, and cheaper energy.

The biggest corporate donors are supporting two candidates: Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton.

Jeb’s latest “misspeak” about overfunding for women’s health suggests a troubling problem with debates looming.

Nine essential moments from Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, with guests and writers explaining why. #video

Twenty-one different music videos for a single song in a mesmerizing montage.

Eighty-seven years of natural sound recordings released in massive digital library.

See also: Live map of living hedgehogs, dead hedgehogs, and hedgehog holes.

Jack Handey: The worst part of the apocalypse will be the success of Cannibalism Today.

Transfusions of “young” blood may help elderly heal like teenagers.

Would not recommend to anybody. Yelp reviews of newborn babies.

Metropolitan Opera to quit using blackface in productions of Othello.

DC’s pro tennis tournament, currently being played, started because Arthur Ashe wanted to see black faces watching tennis.

New review of research finds the most scientifically valid way to pick optimal running shoes: the most comfortable ones.

Drone drops a package containing heroin, marijuana, and tobacco into a Ohio prison yard.

Patent application suggests Facebook wants lenders to be able to discriminate against borrowers based on their social networks.

Laura Miller. Kendrick Lamar. Stephen King. Tyler Cowen picks people who deserve to be raised in status.

What concrete changes would I make in schools? We should have way more classes which are way shorter.