March 18, 2016

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North Korea launches ballistic missiles test, following Obama’s new round of sanctions.

Latest Chinese social-media skinny craze finds women trying to hide waists behind single sheets of paper.

The Chinese nickname for Facebook—“must die” or “doomed”—makes sense when Zuckerberg jogs in smog.

Related: Chinese citizens grow “hideous” mustaches to filter extreme air pollution. #video

Japanese tour guides, finding Paris too dirty, elect to clean the city themselves.

It’s increasingly unlikely that Earth’s warming will stay under two degrees celsius, the limit of “safe” global warming.

Vernal equinox is set for March 20—spring’s earliest start since 1896.

Photographs of ski resorts from space.

Some 90% of coal produced by America’s three largest coal companies is on land leased by the government.

Black people account for nearly all of America’s marijuana arrests, but just 1% of legal dispensary owners.

See also: Part two of Evan Ratliff’s “The Mastermind.”

Fifty-six percent of millennials identify as “working-class,” highest number since the ‘80s.

No real evidence shows that standing at work is better for you than sitting; calories burned equal two banana chips.

Over half of New York Times articles about Islam are negative, with a sharp increase in 2014.

Prison riots now regularly occur in Alabama, and the governor’s response is to build more prisons.

Hillary Clinton has no true intentions to reform the criminal justice system. #opinions

Agencies that protect US parks “enjoy a reputation for a certain benign progressivism,” and a troubling history of hostility toward women.

In the ToB’s final opening-round match, Paul Beatty’s The Sellout meets The Invaders by Karolina Waclawiak. #tob16

“Greatest novel written in the Irish language”—said to be “exquisitely vulgar”—finally translated into English.

New pronouns proposed for robots: “rhe” and “rer,” “ris” and “rers.”

Looner. Yeastiality. Safe-for-work taxonomy of erotic fixations.