October 30, 2015

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One-child policy raised the cost of raising a kid, making it too expensive for most families to have more than one.

To fight climate change, billionaires should buy up coal and never mine it.

“Elon Musk can keep on making $100,000 cars, but he should make some Teslas to give to poor families—for free.”

It’s good if Jeb’s campaign implodes. Finally, the Bush family machine can’t turn dollars into votes.

“Harry Reid says he liked that John Boehner told him to go fuck himself.”

John Boehner to Paul Ryan: “I was once young and beautiful too.”

One crime lab chemist mishandled 34,000 drug tests over years of malplractice in Massachusetts.

Heart disease is seen—fatally, for many women—as a men’s disease.

Twenty-seven years after Lockerbie, a man looks back on the items he inherited as a boy from his brother, a victim. #interactive

“I lost any sense of journalistic detachment when Patti Stevens mentioned me in her suicide note.”

When a reporter hears a bizarre account, facts come first. Then the story becomes a shocking conspiracy.

In 1986, new subscriptions to Sports Illustrated were in freefall—then came the football phone.

“Other,” that cesspool of weird unsolicited Facebook messages, to be migrated to Messenger.

Romanian pop stars and politicians are using an obscure law to reduce their jail time by writing books.

Letting kids try a math problem before telling them the answer leads to better learning.

A Pringle tastes better when the crunch is amplified, opening the door to study how any one sense interacts with another.

The abyss is always comforting. Graveyard photos for the Halloween spirit.