June 16, 2016

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Democratic Senator’s filibuster leads to a “path forward” in the Senate on two gun control measures.

Since the gun lobby has long suppressed research, basic questions remain about how policy can lead to prevention.

Trump sees two civilizations at conflict; for Obama, they are one.

To prove no one would vote for it, GOP congressman introduced a bill to include women in the draft; yesterday, it passed.

In many countries women are more likely to lean left, though in Europe “women were long seen as bastions of conservatism.”

This is the sound of Britain breaking. Brexit roils London on a neighbor-to-neighbor level.

Flotillas fight over Brexit on London’s Thames.

Ships have gotten so big that the eggs-in-one-basket risk overwhelms economies of scale.

New research suggests that parents’ careless comments about weight gain can have repercussions for years afterward.

if African-American children were all taught by the top 25% of teachers, the performance gap between blacks and whites would close within eight years.

Chinese college students leave nude photos as IOUs on online lending platforms.

Half of people with a prescription for opioid painkillers keep pills for later; 20% share them with friends.

DuPont’s proposed merger with Dow carries major concerns for thousands suing the company for damages from pollution.

Citigroup trademarked “thankyou,” enabling it to sue AT&T for saying “thanks.”

The collapse of the distinction between journalism and advertising isn’t some dystopian future; it’s already here. #opinions

From conversation to computation: the history of humanity can be told by changes in what we do with our hands.

There’s a freshness about life on the road, one that I worry I’ll miss. Life as a female rock climber in a van.

Ichiro Suzuki is baseball’s new career leader in base hits if you count his Japanese and US years equally; Pete Rose disagrees.

Headline of the day: “Man finds 22-pound chunk of butter estimated to be more than 2,000 years old in Irish bog.”

A crowdsourced map of 600 long-distance relationships.