May 23, 2016

Bayer wants to buy Monsanto and create world’s largest GMO supplier.

Obama ends military weapons embargo of Vietnam—possibly as leverage against an encroaching China.

Until last week, the term “Oriental” still appeared in federal law—now it will be replaced by “Asian American.”

Vulnerabilities in our perception are as integral to product design as they are to a magician’s act.

Overtime rule is Tom Perez’s big moment as Secretary of Labor, but it could be a preview to his next job: Vice President.

Our gun rules come from post-Independence subsidies meant to boost the early US Army.

Government immigration data is currently sold, rather than freely available. A reporter is suing to change that.

All it takes is a few local grifters to unleash chaos. Stupendous legacy of corruption cripples Florida town.

Pakistani education has found a new extreme in the balance between memorization and understanding.

Airbnb hosts reject black visitors. Brown v. Board could be used to stop that.

Diagnosing millennial malaise through a terrible Zac Efron movie about EDM.

Sean Penn has a terrible movie too—one that has no time for the lives of the Africans whose suffering it puts on display.

Is the Angry Birds movie about Trump? Hitler? Will we ever know or care?

For years, amateur codebreakers have obsessed over a mysterious subreddit that only posts strings of numbers.

Quit thinking of your brain as a computer. #longreads

by via The Morning News