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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2016-05-01 09:51 am

It's a gloomy day, so here's some predominately gloomy news

How DNA can take on the properties of sand or toothpaste

Diary of a somebody: could I solve the mystery of 148 lost notebooks?

Just How Little Do We Know about the Ocean Floor?

That Time Europe Air-Dropped Vaccine-Loaded Chicken Heads to Bait Rabid Foxes

Discovery of a fundamental limit to the evolution of the genetic code

Parasites Are Us

Just When Was America Great?

Inside the Bizarre, Racist Scheme to Import Siberian Workers to Hawaii in 1909

Is There A Better Way To Pay For America's Schools?

Paul Le Roux could have been Mark Zuckerberg. Instead he became a 21st century John Gotti, running a massive criminal empire from his computer until he became an asset of the United States government.

Why the People Picking California's Tomatoes Can't Afford to Eat Them

Migrant children kept from enrolling in school

Big data breaches found at major email services - expert

The faces of homelessness today

Texas: prisoners whose families maintain their social media presence face 45 days in solitary

Mentally ill in solitary: 'We're not addressing the problem, we’re making it worse'

As the climate shifts, tradition threatens Sri Lanka's rice harvest

Puerto Rico skips bond payments, says Congress must help

They don’t hate ‘our freedoms.’ They hate that we’ve betrayed our ideals in their own countries — for oil.

How a Small Town Became the Capital of HIV in America

Why Is American Home Birth So Dangerous?

Dominoes fall: Vanishing Arctic ice shifts jet stream, which melts Greenland glaciers

Islamic State boosts attacks in response to territorial losses: IHS

Climate-exodus expected in the Middle East and North Africa

‘It could get a lot worse for Muslims in America’