April 20 2016

The Morning News http://ift.tt/1qEZA3t After Clinton and Trump win New York, the media praises Trump’s new “presidential” tone. Scholars and political junkies wonder if The Donald could be impeached as soon as he takes office. Indiana becomes Cruz’s top priority: a chance to end Trump’s hopes of entering Cleveland with 1,237 delegates. Do they achieve their goal? Very much so. The dirty secret of violent surf localism: it works. See also: Guardian reporter harassed away from surfing at California’s feared Lunada Bay. South Korea has yet to acknowledge its abuse of thousands of homeless people rounded up before the 1988 Olympics. Black Lives Matter was born on Twitter. Will it die there? Treasury Department may soon suspend the penny—likely angering the zinc industry (pennies are 98% zinc). Forty-eight percent of people who buy vinyl records don’t listen to them; 7% don’t even own a turntable. A happy marriage in the digital era begins with an invitation to listen to a record. Professors propose applying the “slow movement” to academic work, to combat “time stress.” Workers over 40 perform best if they work three days a week, according to economic researchers. Zizek: Panama Papers mean “we can no longer pretend we don’t know” that the rich live by different rules. The depth of America’s personal debt crisis is obscured by silence, enabled by shame. Swiss branding agency charges $29,000 to name your baby. Fight for marijuana legalization stalled in New England due to the opiate crisis. Military psychologists use mandatory treatment to help members of the special forces. #longreads “Crunch,” or emergency unpaid overtime, is crushing game developers, who are told to grin and bear it. New twist on platform ethics: bike racing app Strava has a steroid scandal. Florida startup quietly engineers augmented-reality tech that may someday replace desktop displays. Word processing’s roots in gender have receded, but not disappeared, since the days when literary wives took dictation. Reality show crew saves actual castaway on a deserted island. Forgotten detail about Elvis: He loved racquetball so much, he had a palatial court built at Graceland.