Week of August 6, 2018 Archives
RCI -
Other Investigations
Monday, August 6
'Gundamentalists' Pressure NRA From Within
Daniel Trotta
,
Reuters
Cardiac Survival Rate Rises for Women Treated by Female Docs
Ed Yong
,
Atlantic
Tuesday, August 7
The Disgusting Origins of the Color Purple
Kelly Grovier
,
BBC
How We Got the Summer of Plastic-Straw Bans
Bob Tita
&
Corrine Ramey
,
WSJ
As Crashes Persist, Copter Industry Slow to Upgrade Fuel Tanks
Andy Pasztor
,
WSJ
Farrakhan's Anti-Semitism Doesn't Violate Facebook 'Hate' Rules
Peter Hasson
,
DC
Facebook to Banks: Give Us Your Data, We'll Give You Our Users
Glazer
et al.,
WSJ
Wednesday, August 8
The Conspiracy to Humiliate Baseball Umpire Steve Fields
Dave McKenna
,
Deadspin
600,000-Plus Foreigners Overstayed U.S. Visas in 2017
Alan Gomez
,
USA Today
FDA Buys 'Fresh' Fetal Tissue to Create Humanized Mice
Terrence P. Jeffrey
,
CNS
Why Solar Will Leave World's Poor Short on Electricity
Bjorn Lomborg
,
Proj. Syndicate
Why U.S. Wildfires Have Gotten So Much Worse
Michael Bastasch
,
Daily Caller
Thursday, August 9
How to Guard Our Electrical Grid
Manimaran Govindarasu
&
Adam Hahn
,
The Conversation
The Super-Secret Sand That Makes Your Phone Possible
Vince Beiser
,
Wired
SEC Probe Over Musk Tweet
Michael Rapoport
&
Dave Michaels
,
Wall Street Journal
Asbestos, Lead Found in Popular School Supplies
Ursula Perano
&
Amanda Watts
,
CNN
Everyone Pours Bacon Fat Down the Drain, Everyone Lies About It
Lara Kane
,
WSJ
Colleagues Accuse Top Empathy Researcher of Bullying
Kai Kupferschmidt, Science
DIY Diabetics Hack Themselves a Pancreas
Naomi Kresge
&
Michelle Cortez
,
Bloomberg
The Nasty Feud Over What Killed the Dinosaurs
Bianca Bosker
,
Atlantic
Friday, August 10
Tech Giants Punish Activists for Posting 3D Gun Files
Stephen Gutowski
, Free Beacon
Post-Millennial Gen Z Poised to Kill Malls, Football
Riley Griffin
,
Bloomberg
Murdered as Transgender, but ID'd as Men
Lucas Waldron
,
Ken Schwencke
,
ProPublica
Opioid Addiction Among Pregnant Women Has Quadrupled
Julia Lurie
,
Mother Jones
That 'McScam' Article Behind H'wood Bidding War? It Was a Plant
Chris Lee
,
Vulture
Inside the Controversial Business of Dog Cloning
David Ewing Duncan
,
Vanity Fair
The 'Steely-Eyed Killer' Fox News Star Now Hiding from the Law
Keith Kloor
,
Politico
Saturday, August 11
The Flourishing Business of Fake YouTube Views
Michael H. Keller,
New York Times