September 18, 2015

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Initially saying asylum seekers could pass through freely, Croatia closes borders after 11,000 migrants pour in.

Trump doesn’t correct questioner who says Obama is a Muslim.

Trump has shown us that if 2012 was the first internet election, 2016 is the first viral election.

Maybe we are a hobby, reality TV-like entertainment. Why aliens abduct humans, according to economists.

Apple’s ad-blocking broadside will undercut Google and pressure the rest of the ad-based web to adapt or die.

In a world after ad blocking, expect more native advertising—and unblockable ads on monster platforms.

Parasitic wasps weaponize genetically engineered viruses against host caterpillars.

President Carter watched Star Wars with Anwar Sadat, and other revelations from the Carter movie logbook.

“I still feel like I know more about how 9/11 affected Rannazzisi from the fabricated story than from the real one.”

Profile of C.J. Chivers, an ex-Marine who added forensic ballistics expertise to war journalism, as he steps away from war zones. #longreads

Scientists are mining the genome of the long-lived bowhead whale for cancer-suppressing insights.

Data analytics are changing how Hollywood assembles its teams.

Amidst America’s opiate epidemic, many are learning they entrusted their loved ones to underregulated, underperforming rehab scams in south Florida.

Genetic engineers are figuring out they can raise a person’s resting happiness level, but not above a certain threshold.

New Horizons captured a sunset on Pluto.

Ikea shopping and furniture assembly makes couple fight because it dredges up pasts and insecurities.

You start this world armed only with a UNIVERSAL FURNITURE-ASSEMBLY ALLEN WRENCH. The Ikea walkthrough.

Quiz: Is it the title of a porno or a Bukowski poem?