September 3, 2015

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Barbara Mikulski’s support pushed Obama’s Iran deal over the top, the culminating step in a well-laid plan.

Republicans are eyeing how to delay implementation of the Iran Deal, or use it as a wedge issue against Democrats in 2016.

China celebrates Japan’s WWII defeat anniversary with pride—Westerners don’t learn much about their efforts against the Axis.

After displaying fearsome new military technology, China announces reduction of personnel by 15%.

Yesterday marked the first time Chinese warships have been seen near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.

Don’t call them “car accidents”—they’re not random, and we can reduce them if we try.

Badly designed walkways are causing “the amassing of a population of urban citizens with epidemic levels of boredom.”

Researchers trained a phone to detect boredom.

Mountain Jane Doe, the baffling last case in a career spent identifying missing persons.

Darkness may help heal lazy eye, but it’s hard to achieve perfect dark for patients, even in lab settings.

Bernie Sanders pitches to Dem kingmakers: We will only win if we turn out voters—so look at the numbers.

An international phenomenon that stirs outrage, awe and glee. Baseball’s art of the bat flip—considered arrogant in America, it’s commonplace in Korea.

Reliance on GPS shrinks our hippocampuses and reduces our navigational skills.

Driven by moral and financial concerns relating to climate change, California will sell off pension investments in coal.

British newspapers protest BBC’s publicly funded online dominance of local news.

Business officials bungled a gerrymandering deal and created a district with exactly one voter.

New Zealand is redesigning its flag and no one likes the choices.

Romance novels colonize the Amish, “long the object of prurient curiosity” from modern America.

Selling plasma offers a brutal last-ditch source of income for an America without welfare.

Across India an entire category of architecture is slowly crumbling into obscurity. Documenting disappearing stepwalls.

“For a while a lot of people did not know that Lisa Frank was a person.” #interview

Ashamed their nation is only offering to receive 50 Syrian refugees, 12,000 Icelanders sign up to help.

“My Nephew Has Some Questions,” Jesse Eisenberg.