Headlines from June 24, 2014

Tens of thousands of Iraqis form military ¨Peace Brigades¨ to assist the government. #photography
Map of the US shows where guns outnumber libraries and museums.
See also: Profile of the first blind man to acquire a concealed-carry permit. #video
Twenty emergency responders required to extract an American foreign-exchange student from a stone sculpture of a vagina in Germany.
Nearly 1,400 uninspected oil and gas wells exist in America, and nearly half of them are in Wyoming.
Air Force says the use of archaic systems—8-inch floppy disks—aids the cyber security of America’s nuclear arsenal.
Participants assumed the oversharers were in satisfying, committed relationships, but they also liked those people the least. Science behind Facebook PDA.
Study attempting to measure how often people think about sex confounded by the “white bear problem.”
Reddit forum addresses “what’s the most fucked-up thing you’ve ever done for money.”
True crime reminds its readers over and over again that most detectives aren’t fantastically clever.
Mexico’s success in the World Cup used as smoke screen for the PRI to continue its “Mafioso depravity.” #opinions
UAE’s Masdar City found to be the most sustainable city in the Middle East.
Investigating the actual value of Cincinnati’s historic buildings: priceless in terms of sentiment; very expensive to actually renovate.
What can I say about those crazy days and nights? I was there. You weren’t. George Saunders writes liner notes.
The twilight of hipster misogyny detected in the downfall of Terry Richardson and Dov Charney.
New Orleans funeral home follows Puerto Rican trend of posing dead people in real-life situations, rather than coffins.