September 21, 2015

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Tsiprias calls re-election a clear mandate; Greece’s fifth election in six years had record low turnout.

US military directed its soldiers to ignore Afghan commanders’ sexual abuse of boys.

“They were novices, with higher voices than mine, and they didn’t know where to find an ATM.”

Like the rest of Germany, Dachau is struggling to house refugees. The only place to put them: the sites of Holocaust death camps.

Around the world, aquifers are drying up—and, as seen in Saudi Arabia, they won’t replenish.

Los Angeles has to borrow water. Las Vegas is the improbable donor.

One grandiose water project to invade Canada and solve the Western water crisis ended up a symbol of 20th century hubris.

How the Yukon Gold Rush spawned Donald Trump’s family wealth.

South Korea requires smartphones to be sold with parental oversight apps, but the apps can be easily hijacked by a dedicated hacker.

In language and stories, finance is always cloaked in so much mystique.

A Spanish-language hashtag campaign is fighting to save its disappearing accent marks.

An ex-NBA star is mayor of Sacramento, but recent corruption seems connected to his wife, a high-powered school privatization expert.

It’s difficult to separate Kareem Abdul-Jabbar from his new novel about Mycroft Holmes, so stop trying.

A terrifying childhood incident ignites a lifelong phobia-but the real culprit is Arthur Conan Doyle.

“Over time, can electronic media’s caged hallucinations affect the hemispheric balance of the brain and dramatically change us?”

Photos of Chicago locations the day after a murder took place there.

No worthwhile crime map would have a dot where I ran into the guy smoking on my back steps. Learning fear in Chicago.

Columbia’s student government introduces meal-sharing app for wealthy students to suckle their hungry classmates.

Giant wooden megaphones in Estonian forests.

Giraffes emit low-frequency humming at night.