November 6, 2015

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Exxon Mobil investigated over possible climate change deception—like tobacco, it could result in years of litigation.

Since deregulation in 1978, the US airline industry has never been profitable for more than six years.

Internal TSA report finds that the TSA is terrible at its job.

“Jeb Bush could have personally discovered the Fountain of Youth a mile underneath a Winn-Dixie in St. Augustine and we still would not listen.”

Workers who get diseases on the job, as opposed to injuries, have a nearly impossible chance of using workers’ comp.

Half of young black people have first or secondhand experience with police abuse.

Plaques matter. A black South Carolina historian wants to preserve a monument to a white supremacist and murderer.

See also: Why it’s the duty of every white American to burn a Confederate flag.

The Pope who wanted to kill Hitler.

Low stress and frequent sex tend to result in more male babies.

How the one-child policy benefited girls in China: Families invested just as much in their child, whatever the gender.

See also: Gender inequality is why Paul Ford chooses to save for his daughter but not his son.

“Third-worldist-feminist-communist-anime-avatar Twitter! What a world! What a time to be alive!”

Gabagool, explained.

We have 14 telescopes. Two of them work. The last Soviet space observatory.

This never gets old: cities by starlight. #photography