Some articles

Britain's first secret trial: this way lies trouble

If we allow hard-won freedoms to be discarded without a fight, what is to stop the powerful coming for other rights?

I can't help but think that even a crappy secret trial is better than locking people up indefinitely without a trial like some nations I could name....

Not, you know, much better, but a little.

http://bit.ly/Umuw92

Everyone has seen photos of Michelangelo's David, but unfortunately the sculpture is invariably shown from the side view, rather than from the front.

The image on the the right is an actual frontal view of David, as he coolly yet menacingly awaits Goliath, his sling at the ready over his shoulder and his face full of disdain. With this lighting, he actually appears to be sneering at the giant. The message of the sculpture is clearly, "You [Goliath, and by extension, Caesar Borgia and any other potential enemy of the Florentine Republic] are dead meat!"

http://bit.ly/1p9C1wO

No Sunscreen Allowed at School: “Kids could drink it.”

http://bit.ly/1o2sx6L

Of course, if you do drink the sunscreen (because you can?), the worst that's likely to happen is a stomach upset.

http://1.usa.gov/1kIUn4V

Students Build the First Eukaryotic Chromosome from Scratch

http://bit.ly/1oz8LxI

To be gay, Christian and black in Harlem

West African asylum seekers face a new kind of discrimination in the US

http://alj.am/1pSPzg7

US to provide lawyers for some immigrant children

Obama administration predicts 60,000 unaccompanied minors will enter the US illegally this year

http://alj.am/1kP88zO

Pope Francis defends Gypsies in Vatican address

Pontiff urges Italians to stem their suspicion and calls on authorities to help those at the margins of society

http://bit.ly/1p9D0gv

Prison Rape Law A Decade Old, But Most States Not In Compliance

http://n.pr/1qbEfcu

Three hundred more unaccompanied migrant children — with more on the way — were transported Saturday from southern Texas into a makeshift way station set up in a Border Patrol detention facility in Nogales, Ariz., as government agencies took additional steps to improve the living conditions there.

http://bit.ly/1rYhKw1

Ethan Couch, the Texas teen whose deadly drunk driving was excused by a lenient judge because of "affluenza," is serving his time in rehab on mostly taxpayers' money, RadarOnline reports. According to RadarOnline, it is largely the public who will be responsible for the now 17-year-old's $438,000-per-year rehab treatment.

Unfuckingbelievable.

http://bit.ly/1pqQvpJ

No way around it: Reducing emissions will be the primary way to fight climate change, UCLA-led study finds

http://bit.ly/1kIV3am

Here’s a new way to keep cattle burps from toasting the planet

http://bit.ly/1uENCnq

Smog-busting roof tiles could clean tons of pollution, study says

http://lat.ms/1idsoFE

Can Farmed Fish Feed The World Without Destroying The Environment?

http://n.pr/1qbIl4l

Driverless cars could be good for environment

(Not, you know, as good as public transportation, or any transport option that is emission-free)

http://pojonews.co/1jcHdbT

Growing Ebola Outbreak Threatens to Overwhelm Volunteers

http://nbcnews.to/1idtKQO

Tree frogs in Taiwan seem to be using concrete drainage ditches as megaphones during mating season, according to new research.

http://bit.ly/1lg8fDc

Climate change is bad for your health? Yes, so says White House

http://bit.ly/1kWXBNk

Kerry Calls Threats of Freed Taliban ‘a Lot of Baloney’

http://bloom.bg/1iduJAx

US prosecutors revisiting nearly 5,000 convictions

http://bit.ly/1kWXXmV