1. IMPORTANT: Where to Get Free Donuts on National Donut Day
It’s the annual sugar-laden celebration of our disagreement on how to spell the word "doughnut." Enjoy!
2. Ken Starr’s Response to Baylor Crisis ‘Shows a Fundamental Misunderstanding of What Survivors Go Through’
In an interview with ESPN Outside the Lines, Starr — who was removed as president and resigned his chancellorship following an investigation — maintained that sexual assaults don’t happen on campus and said the university needs to “put this horrible situation behind us.”
3. It’s Hard to Get Therapy if You’re Not White
A new study “suggests psychotherapists are more likely to offer appointments to middle-class white people than to middle-class African-Americans or to working-class people of any race.”
4. Evangelicals Must Not Bear the Mark of Trump
The day after Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said he would vote for Donald Trump, columnist Michael Gerson decries the seeming domino effect of conservatives — particularly the evangelical block.
5. Here’s How Ridiculously Complicated it Is for Refugees to Apply for Asylum
The UN created a helpful flowchart — and still just reading it is exhausting.
6. The Sun Is Always Shining in Christian Pop
From FiveThirtyEight: “I took a look at the last five years of Billboard’s year-end top 50 Christian songs to see whether Christian pop is unrelentingly cheerful … There were 2.5 times as many mentions of ‘grace’ as ‘sin’ in the songs’ lyrics. Other pairs were even more lopsided: There were more than eight mentions of ‘life’ for every instance of ‘death,’ and ‘love’ was more than seven times as common as ‘fear.’”
7. WATCH: Mass Shootings in the U.S. in 2015
Visualizing an epidemic.
8. Big Oil Is Terminal
“Existential threat #1 to oil, the ever-worsening reality of climate change, makes peak demand inevitable in the next few decades. Existential threat #2, the ever-improving reality of electric car batteries, will be one of the primary instruments of demand destruction.”
9. Where Rumors Can Kill: Considering Technology as a Basic Human Need
“When most people think of a humanitarian crisis, they imagine a population that has nowhere to live and nothing to eat. But in Greece, food and shelter, while basic, are available. The two things that are in short supply are patience and information. The situation exposes one of the greatest challenges of humanitarian crises today — ensuring access to relevant, accurate information that might help calm tense situations.”
10. Everything You Know About AI Is Wrong
Killer robots, job-stealing machines: your questions answered.
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