Tuesday, March 22, 2016

March 22, 2016


The Morning News http://ift.tt/1MzJ2OZ

Terrorists kill 34 or more in attacks at the Brussels international airport and a city metro station.

It was basically like a big bang. Eyewitness accounts from Belgium.

Cameron criticises the UK Independence Party for immediately linking the attacks to immigration.

Rebecca Solnit on the officer-involved shooting that symbolizes San Francisco’s gentrification.

Raul Castro on new ground: fielding, for the first time, questions for a live Cuban TV audience.

New York millionaires say they should pay even higher taxes.

Oregon collects $3.48 million in revenue from first month of taxed recreational marijuana sales.

Seventy-six percent of people aged 18-35 in Hong Kong still live with their parents—almost twice the level of the US, UK, or France.

China has its first-ever transgender labor discrimination case—“an invisible issue for the government.”

Group of 19 leading scientists warn that a perilous climate shift will occur within decades, not centuries.

Letters from NPR listeners help engineer shed guilt over not preventing the Challenger disaster.

Every technology is assistive: interview with a woman destigmatizing disability.

Tennis tournament CEO quits after saying women players should “get on their knees” to thank Federer and Nadal.

Billy orders her to put on smaller shorts. Daughter pays tribute to her mother’s waitress work.

Daughters of coders don’t become coders, and other lessons from Facebook research on the heritability of profession.

Today in the Tournament of Books, Jess Zimmerman chooses between The Turner House and Our Souls at Night. #tob16

They’re like reading movies. James Patterson and his team to release new line of “BookShots” for non-readers.

House of Cards makes a convincing argument that a strong marriage doesn’t need to depend on sexual fidelity. #opinions

Graph theory, “pivot culture,” and the organizational structures of startups and corporations.

Photographs of brutalist buildings made from white Lego bricks.

See also: “A nine-hour quest for meaning at the Mall of America.”










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