Headlines from July 8, 2013

For schools that choose to arm their employees, insurance carriers are raising premiums or refusing to provide coverage. #guns
From 2011 to four days ago, a timeline of Egypt’s transition from Mubarak to Morsi.
There is a war on Wikipedia over naming Egypt’s “coup,” since it’s hardly a traditional seizure.
Boko Harem massacres 22 students as part of an ongoing protest against Western education; schools in Nigeria’s Yobe district ordered shut.
Fatal Quebec train explosion had no conductor aboard when it derailed.
California prison doctors found to have illegally sterilized approximately 248 female inmates since the late 1990s.
Scientists introduce pavement that can consume air pollution from auto emissions.
In Japan, up to a million young people have withdrawn from society, refusing to leave their homes for years.
Anonymous Japanese Twitterbot posts only images of burnt food.
See also: “The Internet of Actual Things” by Giles Turnbull. #tmn
When the staff of the New Yorker mutinied over the announcement of a new editor.
Gripping my telescope tripod in both hands, I held it in front of me to form a barrier as the bear cannoned into me. #nature
I thought I would die at 41, when I had a bad fall and broke a leg while mountaineering alone. The joy of old age.
As Evan Osnos prepares to depart China, yet another character introduces himself on the street.
The sounds of slot machines are designed to make us think we won, even when we didn’t.
“The” has long been the ugly stepchild of the articles-and-prepositions family; it might always be.
France, too, has a PRISM that spies on all its citizens and stores their online data.
I was tolerated but not really wanted. For Fred Perry, until yesterday the last Brit to win Wimbledon, it was a very different reception.
For years he was relegated to the fourth man: How Andy Murray became great. #tennis
Now it’s the UK’s turn: “Six chemicals we consume in our food and drink that should be banned.”
Though heroin and cocaine use is down, newly popular drugs are appearing so quickly that they can’t be banned fast enough. #drugs
When you want to buy alcohol in Pakistan, you need a bootlegger you can trust: You need to call Bilal.
Why hotels provide shampoo and soap, but no toothpaste: because they don’t have to.
Warden, murder me. Sodom and Gomorrah which is Harris County. Last words of the Texas condemned.
Researchers believe a rare breed of killer whale may in fact be a new species. #nature
In five years of leading the anti-Yelp crusade, Ashley admits she doesn’t know of anyone who can prove they’ve been extorted. #longreads
While we were out: Lou Reed reviewed Yeezus.
You’re warned against stopping the headbanging by force. David Mitchell comes to terms with his son’s autism.
From 1978, the initial Boba Fett costume screentest. #video
David inflicted his death on everyone who cared about him, and I couldn’t believe it. And I am still writing it down. #longreads
Beck performs Song Reader with Jarvis Cocker, Franz Ferdinand, more. #video