The Crypto-Keepers

If apps like Signal really posed a threat to the NSA’s surveillance power, why would the U.S. government continue to fund them? By Yasha Levine.
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Gabrielle Deydier: what it’s like to be fat in France

Gabrielle Deydier’s book about being obese has ignited her native France. She tells Stefanie Marsh how her life has been a battle against ‘grossophobia’, discrimination and verbal abuse – until now.
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Why is linguistics such a magnet for dilettantes and crackpots?

The study of languages has long been prone to nonsense. Why is linguistics such a magnet for dilettantes and crackpots? By Gaston Dorren.
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Seven Days of Heroin

The [Cincinnati, Ohio] Enquirer sent 60 journalists to cover an ordinary week in this extraordinary time. This is what an epidemic looks like.
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How Cold War philosophy permeates US society to this day

When Cold War philosophy tied rational choice theory to scientific method, it embedded the free-market mindset in US society. By John McCumber.
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Half of Canada's wildlife species are in decline, WWF finds

Despite Canada's vast wilderness, populations of half its vertebrate species are shrinking, a new World Wildlife Fund report finds. And endangered species like woodland caribou and St. Lawrence beluga whales continue to disappear even after becoming protected by federal laws. The Living Planet Report Canada, released Thursday morning by the conservation group WWF-Canada, found 451 of 903 mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian and fish species across the country — half the species in the study — declined in number between 1970 and 2014.
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How EVE Players Pulled Off The Biggest Betrayal In Its History

EVE Online is infamous for its scammers, pirates, and ne’er-do-wells, but this week all their scams were put to shame. A member of the game’s Council of Stellar Management and head diplomat of the Circle of Two alliance named The Judge stole all of the holdings of the 4,000-person alliance for himself. He took their money, took their ships, and sold their Death Star-esque space citadel to their most hated enemies. By Lee Yancy.
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