It's this time of year.

I go to bed under blankets, with the heater on low, and when I wake up I'm sweating and I have to scramble to get the air conditioner on. It's fun!

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How England's First Feline Show Countered Victorian Snobbery About Cats

Hotels build buzz for eco-efforts with rooftop beehives

The Goat, the Wolf, and the Cabbage, OR: Poor Purchasing Decisions

Making Victorian Nectar Drop Candy

What Makes Washday Less Blue? Gender, Nation, and Technology Choice in Postwar Canada (PDF)

First Evidence of Humans in North America Found Off Florida, New Study Says

Loud and low-carb: Cicadas are back in Ohio, West Virginia

For Sale: A Housebroken Pet Bison

Women boxers punch through social taboos in Sudan

Photo controversy highlights black women in Long Gray Line (Okay, so this is the most interesting article I've seen on the subject.)

The Privilege of Buying 36 Rolls of Toilet Paper at Once

Secret Harvard meeting on synthetic human genomes incites ethics debate

Next NSA Fight Begins With Semantics: 'Backdoor Search' or 'U.S. Person Query'?

Arrest of Tennessee children exposes flawed juvenile justice

When childhood innocence and gang violence lived side by side in Boyle Heights

Eyewitnesses remember the faces of black suspects less accurately in drive-by shootings than they do in serial killings.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, three others found in civil contempt

States dig in against directive on transgender bathroom use

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That was strange.

The sound on Eva's laptop randomly shut off. It was fixable just by disabling the speaker and then using troubleshoot to reenable it, but I have no idea how that happened.

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Watch Moose 'Playing' Wind Chimes

Tough Cookies: The Treats That Fueled a Century of Girl Scouts

Israel's First Transgender Officer: Army Wants Me to Succeed

Denmark will become the first country to no longer define being transgender as a mental illness

Unusual Potato Chip Flavors Around the World

Mighty mealworms: solution for food insecurity and pollution

Before Camping Got Wimpy: Roughing It With the Victorians

Storing babies' blood samples pits privacy versus science

The Violent Ice Cream Wars of 1980s Scotland

On Mexico-US border, living in the shadow of 'The Wall'

How cognitive biases contribute to people refusing the flu vaccine

The Campaign to Eliminate Hell: A new generation of evangelical scholars are challenging the idea that sinners are doomed to eternal torment—but traditionalists are pushing back.

Why a housing scheme founded in racism is making a resurgence today

We didn’t need to drop the bomb — and even our WW II military icons knew it

U.S. concern grows over possible Venezuela meltdown - officials

Marlboro Boys: Indonesia's Youngest Smokers Light Up. (Disturbing photos of kids in big tobacco's "playground.")

The Secret NSA Diary of an Abu Ghraib Interrogator

FBI bugged public spaces for years hoping to overhear a few illegal things

What I’ve Learned as a Jail Doctor

Obama to deport hundreds of mothers and children fleeing violence in Central America

Reports of more possible raids prompt warnings from Latino advocates

Immigrant mothers: Detention center harmful to kids

Syrian Kurds increasing diplomatic representation abroad

‘This is our 1948’: Kurds kindle a close relationship with Jews and Israel

Turkish Military Masses at Syria Border, but Why?

After ISIS: Inside the Iraqi City Left in Ruins

Searching for Ground Truth in the Kunduz Hospital Bombing