July 14, 2016

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New British PM appoints Boris Johnson foreign secretary, for “glorified trade promotion and PR.”

Reminder: When British governments change, the Queen is briefly in charge.

France’s presidential hairdresser gets $10,958 a month, a third less than Hollande, who’s partially bald.

Related: What really happened on Bastille Day (happy Bastille Day!).

Democrats could filibuster today as Republicans refuse to fund Zika research without anti-abortion riders.

Trump’s foreign policy for Central Asia shows a pragmatic tilt—if you’re trying to do business.

RNC speakers include Tim Tebow, Peter Thiel, Trump’s family.

Case Western summer classes canceled for a week so university can house riot police in town for the RNC.

Philadelphia airport workers vote to strike and disrupt DNC travel.

Highways, which facilitated white flight and urban ghettos, have become a symbolic stronghold for racial protests.

The way we talk about racist violence gives agency to people’s skin, which is ridiculous and unhelpful.

Thanks to the demand for perfect looking food, half of all American produce is thrown away.

Investigators consider charging Exxon for climate denial conspiracy, with the nature of free speech—which cannot include fraud—at stake.

Wildlife hospital opens first-ever blood bank for birds that arrive injured during migration to Israel.

China’s investments into research on early humans recenter origins in Asia, not Africa.

Human voices hold many fascinatingly gendered valences; vocal training is an underreported part of gender transitioning.

New research suggests that dinosaurs didn’t roar, they mumbled or cooed with their mouths closed.

Now that medical records are digital, they draw a much higher price on the dark web than credit cards.

Contemporary art is dead, unless you’re willing to see tech as the next big thing, as important as Picasso or Duchamp. #opinions

FOUND magazine launches podcast, with Davy Rothbart and a guy from Chicago who wants to become the “Asian Oprah.”

Reunited, LCD Soundsystem plays festivals but can no longer draw crowds.

LCD Soundsystem introduces the world’s first underground park—100 acres beneath the Lower East Side. #video