Scientists are about to reconstruct the face of a woman who was killed in the 18th century for being a "witch." Read more about it the unusual way the body was buried: https://t.co/uGEjsnb89l
Its leaders are under house arrest, there’s been widespread internet and social media blackouts, its majority Muslim citizens are under curfew and today Kashmir is to be turned from an autonomous state into a Delhi-run union territory. Another day in the world’s largest democracy
DAYTON, Ohio — In the hours before the mass shooting, siblings Connor and Megan Betts drove the family’s 2007 Corolla to visit this city’s historic Oregon District, an area alive on a summer night with restaurants, bars and nightlife.
Article @ The Guardian from April of by Michael Kimmel who is the author of Guyland and Angry White Men. He directs the center for the study of men and masculinities at New York's Stony Brook University:
[....] It’s true that high-deductible plans are one reason people get high medical bills in the first place. And it’s also fair to say that insurers don’t always negotiate for the lowest prices they can, and that they make healthy profits.
Does Boris Johnson believe any of his own claims, and do his followers in turn believe him? In both cases, the answer is yes, but only in the highly qualified way that an actor inhabits his role and an audience knowingly accepts the pretense. Johnson’s appeal lies precisely in the creation of a comic persona that evades the distinction between reality and performance.
It used to be that a woman who remained unmarried after 25 in Japan was called “Christmas cake,” a reference to holiday pastries that won’t sell after Dec. 25. Now, there are so many single women that such slurs are fading. https://t.co/5o3gLHnqpb
[....] Mexico City had always been a haven from the beheadings and mass graves that beset the country. But as homicides have risen year after year, it began to look more like the rest of Mexico. Since leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took power in December, crime has become topic No. 1 in conversations in cafes and bars and offices.
After months of confrontation with the Association of Talent Agents, a war of words has broken out among members of the Writers Guild https://t.co/5DIuN6pud1
Scoop: With little oversight, the NYPD has been using powerful facial surveillance technology on photos of teenagers and children as young as 11.https://t.co/dXrRJGyX2k
By @JoeKGoldstein and @AliWatkins
