Let's cut through this backlog!

OMG I DO NOT WANT TO READ ANY POLITICAL NEWS BUT I WILL PROBABLY BE FORCED TO.

(I'll put it in a separate entry.)

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Rhea the Naked Birdie Proves Bald is Beautiful

The Long, Slightly Strange History Behind Fingernail Clipping

66 Exotic Fruits From Around The World (With Pictures!)

All aboard the love boa... I mean, Staten Island Ferry

The middle finger in American Sign Language

A Bowery tinsmith paints his city of memory

Renewables are no longer ‘alternative.’ Fossil fuels are ‘legacy.’

Revised US tally: HIV infections fell 18 percent in 6 years

Humans Killed the Aral Sea. Now, It’s Come Back to Life

Autism detectable in brain long before symptoms appear

Guatemala's indigenous seek recognition for justice system

Canada's Trudeau tells EU: the world needs you

How Hispanic police officers view their jobs

In nine out of the ten cities that accepted the largest number of refugees, crime went down—sometimes dramatically.

Don't look now, but American judges are attacking debtor's prison

Why American airports suck

Let’s not demonize driving—just stop subsidizing it

Revenge of the Lunch Lady (And when you're done reading this, go call or email or write your congresscritters and tell them you want to expand the school lunch subsidy and also make more children eligible for free or reduced lunch. Call your state legislators too.)

New evidence says leaving bullets inside of gunshot victims could cause mental deterioration.

Rumors highlight the hidden lives of North Korean leaders

A Police Department in Dallas Lost Years of Evidence After a Cyberattack

Nearly 15,000 lost children seek parents in chaos of South Sudan's war

Few alternatives to Palestinian state

Big Oil’s Grip on California

Behind the Internet's Anti-Democracy Movement

Politics

( Things move so fast lately that some of these most likely are painfully out of date, despite only being a few days old. But there may be somebody who hasn't read them yet, so... )

What a time to be alive.