Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
There are a few differences, of course. For one, its solar system is 6 billion years old, compared to our system’s 4.5 billion years. It’s also 60 percent bigger than Earth. That means there’s a 40 percent chance that it’s either a water-world or a gas dwarf rather than a super-Earth. But of all the…
It’s a normal part of human life to wonder about whether or not eating an excess of condiments could be lethal—specifically about the amount of ketchup it would take to not only disfigure you but take you to the big tomato patch in the sky. Well, your nightly wondering is over, and we’ve got an…
YouTubeThis innovative couple in the Outer Banks made their own shark cages so they could swim in the ocean.There have been an unusual number of shark attacks this year, particularly in North Carolina, where more than half a dozen have already been reported this summer. In one particularly bad case, two teenagers lost limbs. That…
After surviving one of the most high-profile and long-running school sex abuse scandals in history, a group of 32 men and women banded together to seek solace and justice — only to find that public outrage, a star attorney, and overwhelming evidence are no match for a legal process stacked against even the most privileged…
Last summer, then-17-year-old New Yorker Winnifred Bonjean-Alpert was arrested and detained for 18 hours for telling her friends—other teens at a party— that they didn’t have to show police officers their IDs. Now, her mother, a civil rights attorney, is attempting to sue the city over the alleged police misconduct. Tabloid coverage of the story…
Nearly two weeks after Sandra Bland was arrested during a traffic stop and subsequently died while in police custody, another new development has been made public. In a recording obtained by an ABC affiliate and confirmed by a local judge, the 28-year-old Bland called a friend from prison hours after her first court appearance on…
Sandra Bland, the woman who was found dead earlier this month in a Texas jail, left a voicemail for her friend from jail, and now it’s been obtained by a number of media outlets. Bland was arrested after a police officer pulled her over for not signaling a lane change. Things escalated, the officer got…
Saturday evening, Troy and Kelli Goode of Memphis headed off to a Widespread Panic concert in nearby Southaven, Mississippi. What should have been a nice night off for two young parents ended with Troy, a 30-year-old chemical engineer, loving husband and devoted daddy of a 15-month-old, being hogtied by the Southaven police, and soon after dying…
When Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination on July 13, he peppered his 34-minute speech with a laundry list of deeply conservative policy prescriptions. Among them was a requirement — much like the one in the state budget he signed less than 24 hours before the event — that welfare recipients…
On Thursday afternoon, one day after rapper Nicki Minaj and white rapper Taylor Swift became embroiled in an extremely heated Twitter exchange about race and about nothing, area woman Katy Perry tweeted this: Finding it ironic to parade the pit women against other women argument about as one unmeasurably capitalizes on the take down of…