February 18, 2016

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Supreme court justices are passionate politicians, not oracles on a Jedi Council.

To deny Obama a third Supreme Court, Republicans invoke Chuck Schumer.

If anything, the line seems to point the other way. Money hasn’t won votes so far this primary season.

New website sells fancy hotel rooms by the hour, pleasing lovers as well as hotels trying to combat Airbnb.

Fewer email users, fewer searches, fewer homepage visits: Yahoo’s death spiral continues.

Women code better, according to anonymized results on open-source projects.

Big claims about quantum computing prove warranted, though new engineering will be necessary to scale.

Hollywood hospital officials pay 40 bitcoin ransom—$17,000—to settle with hackers who took their system hostage.

Slightly related: Roger Ebert’s “How to Read a Movie” from 2008.

Making the claim for Jaws not only as great American art, but a lifesaver.

Vietnamese prisoner inseminates herself with sperm from another inmate, apparently to escape the death penalty.

US oilfield company operating in Iraq says radioactive material was stolen from its premises, raising fears of ISIS.

Fans of Tom Brady express anguish to see him downhill skiing.

Whites who live in Southern counties that had high shares of slaves in 1860 are more likely to identify as Republican.

Writer who considers himself kindred spirit with Oregon occupiers mainly finds despair in the standoff.

Militant ranchers shit on Native American burial grounds, literally.

America’s fracking boom is causing a global spike in methane emissions—many times more potent than carbon.

Viruses don’t normally affect coral reefs, but environmental stress is causing infections to spike.

Chef Heston Blumenthal on “neurogastronomy”—changing the way customers’ tastes are interpreted by their brains.

“Philematology” is the science of kissing, and still mostly a mystery.

If you set out to read the world, how can you stop? Profile of Michael A. Orthofer, the lawyer attempting to read everything.