September 10, 2015

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Oregon may be the driest state in the country, with 70% of the state in extreme drought.

California is currently experiencing its largest forest fire, which has burned through 160 square miles of the San Joaquin Valley.

Six brush fires alone were sparked by lighting in LA County yesterday.

EU president announces refugee quota system that will distribute an additional 120,000 asylum seekers among member states.

In Germany, 88% of citizens claim they’ve donated to refugees—a decisive shift from the country’s attitude toward asylum-seekers in the ‘90s.

Kerry: US should accept more refugees—as many as 100,000 next year.

I reviewed jail on Yelp because I couldn’t afford a therapist. Online reviews of prisons and jails run from helpful to confessional.

Police raid the home of someone parodying Peoria’s mayor on Twitter, then had to pay $225,000 to settle.

Rupert Murdoch just bought National Geographic for $725 million—the society says the deal will fund more scientists and explorers.

“I don’t think there needs to be any alarm that we’re saying any way that you can catch Alzheimer’s disease.”

But you could catch a long-dormant deadly virus frozen in permafrost now melting from global warming.

“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is a real sentence. #video

TMN’s Paul Ford on feminist parenting: Give your daughter more money than your son.

See also: Paul Ford’s “The Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”

Nils Frahm “covers” John Cage’s 4’33”. #video

A short based on an interview with a “coyote”—someone paid to smuggle others from Mexico into the US. #video