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Raining money to spur the economy? Not as crazy as it sounds

Top medical experts say we should decriminalize all drugs and maybe go even further

The Mystery of the Phantom Page Turner

Woman convicted of working for decade as unlicensed attorney (And I bet you thought the premise of Suits was silly.)

Writing Women Characters Into Epic Fantasy Without Quotas

Beverly Cleary Talks Writing and Upcoming 100th Birthday

Goat Rituals and Tree-Trunk Gravestones: The Peculiar History of Life Insurance

One size does not fit all: How some Asian cultures use chopsticks differently

The Harvard Library That Protects The World's Rarest Colors

Netflix’s stunning admission: It throttles video speeds for some customers

North Carolina reins in local governments, transgender rule (Fucking jackasses.)

A Stranger Stole My Identity and Filed My Taxes

Arizona eyes punishment for local progressive policies

Removal of Confederate symbols turns nasty in New Orleans

Poor white kids are less likely to go to prison than rich black kids

Russian military plans buildup from West to Pacific

No Contraception? No Equality

SCOTUS Bros Clearly Don't Understand How Women Get Contraceptives

Indiana governor signs fetal defects abortion ban into law

The problem with Daredevil is that it's so dark.

I don't mean the gray and gray morality, or the generally grimdark setting, I mean the fact that the set designers and producers apparently never met a dark alley, poorly lit basement, or amazingly spacious sewer that they didn't think was just perfect for a fight scene.

I thought for a while it was my monitor, but no, it's just impossible to see what's going on because it's so dark. Lighting! It's not a crime against art! New York City doesn't get that dark at night anyway! BECAUSE WE HAVE STREETLIGHTS! (In related subjects, light pollution is actually a bit of a problem over here.)

Currently watching Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. That show is well-lit.

(Most of the following articles tend towards the depressing/serious.)

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Quantum Computing Breakthrough Paves Way for Ultra-Powerful Machines

Yellowstone supervolcano eruptions were even bigger than we thought

Saturn's rings, moons may be younger than the dinosaurs

US prohibits imprisoning transgender inmates in cells based on birth anatomy

Why Race Matters in Planning Public Parks

Twilight of the Superheroes

At some point, there will be more dead Facebook users than living ones – and for those left behind, it is transforming how we experience the death of those around us.

A Force Unto Itself: A Military Leviathan Has Emerged as America’s 51st and Most Powerful State

New findings in humans provide encouraging foundation for upcoming AIDS vaccine clinical trial

Cambodia's zeal for rubber drives ethnic group from land

Insiders Say NYPD’s Nuisance Unit Skirts the Law and Relies on Unconfirmed Allegations

Can Religious Groups Ignore All Laws They Don’t Like? Or just those related to women's health?

The clockwork rise of Donald Trump and reorganization of American parties

How to inoculate people against Donald Trump’s fact-bending claims

LGBT backlash: N.C. law latest example of states overruling cities

Public sentencing of protesting workers backfires in China

How Do You Decide to Have a Baby When Climate Change Is Remaking Life on Earth?

The Deadly Consequences of Solitary With a Cellmate

Are 'Water Wars' imminent in Central Asia?

How come the US keeps killing ISIS number 2s?

Libya is on verge of implosion

The Kurds have taken advantage of chaos in the region, but remain divided

CIA-armed militias are shooting at Pentagon-armed ones in Syria

In Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State is in retreat on multiple fronts

Tens of thousands of Yemenis mark a year of war, denounce Saudi-led offensive

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The fight against food fraud

The Lost Victorian Art of Egg Collecting

New Evidence That City Birds Might Be More Intelligent Than Rural Ones

Love, Loss And Beauty Pageants: Inside A Cuban HIV Sanitarium

23 Of Buffy’s Most Iconic Lines On “Buffy The Vampire Slayer”

What a Trip! The Toughest Animal Migrations on Earth

The Hidden Histories of Maps Made By Women: Early North America

Squirrels show flexibility and persistence when foraging

When Death Doesn’t Mean Goodbye

What Does it Mean to 'Look Autistic?'

What Urban Hunger Looks Like Now

Season of Birth Genetically Linked to Allergy Risk

Why many Christians in China have turned to underground churches

Terrorism in Western Europe Used to Be Much Worse

Children facing deportation from U.S. have right to attorneys, lawsuit argues

Guatemala: The indigenous population too poor to stay

Pentagon's Evolving Strategy: Treat The Islamic State Like A State

The families whose homes were demolished by mistake

Mapping the Sorry State of America's Bridges

U.K. Kids Spend Less Time Outside Than Prison Inmates, Study Says

Old Main prison: A tour through American prison history

The Rise of 1,000 Small Jails

Tay Exposes the Fairy Tales We Tell Ourselves About Racists

A Century Later, Slaughter Still Haunts Turkey and Armenia

Turkey's Erdogan criticizes foreign diplomats for attending journalists' trial

A 'Forgotten Disease' Is Suddenly Causing New Worries