WE BUILD:‘We Are United by Love’.

YOU’RE MAKING DESMOND MORRIS CRY NOW: Humans are not apes.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Great French Artist Eugène Delacroix on Self-Doubt, Idea-Ambivalence, and the Cure for Procrastination. Well, a report I can use at any rate.

THE DEATH OF EBOOKS IS GREATLY EXAGGERATED: No, e-book sales are not falling, despite what publishers say.  Which was also my opinion here: Whistling Past The Graveyard.

VIRTUE SIGNALING AIN’T CHEAP: California pension systems stand to lose millions by divesting from coal.  And, of course, they count on us to bail them out.

GOOD: Phi Kappa Psi Sues Rolling Stone Over UVA Rape Hoax.

LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT CHECKERS: Burden of Truth Back on Media as BuzzFeed Finds Confirmation from Carson’s Mom on Stabbing Incident.

A NEW WAY TO GREEN: Fracking, Not Renewables, Is Responsible For Emissions Reduction. Save the birds.  Frack!

AND THEY SAID MATRIARCHIES WERE FAIR: College spokesman says rape didn’t happen, loses his job.

THE CURE FOR THE HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE: The College of Lost Arts.

SHE NEEDS A SAFE ROOM, APPARENTLY: Meet The Mizzou Media Professor Who’s Trying To Ban Media Coverage.

GREATER FRIEND HAS NO CAT: Cat donates his kidney to fellow cat.

NEWS WE CAN USE: Why do all the other supermarket checkout queues always move faster than yours?

PERHAPS GROUPING KIDS WHO HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON BUT AGE IN A CLASSROOM IS NOT THE MOST EFFECTIVE TEACHING METHOD: Hillary Clinton: Most charter schools ‘don’t take the hardest-to-teach kids, or, if they do, they don’t keep them’.

A QUESTION WE SHOULD ALL ASK: Though his answers would become mush in the hands of the current establishment. A venture capitalist searches for the purpose of school. Here’s what he found. (I suspect for most places and parents the answer would be “Keeping the kids out of trouble while the parents work.  And that is the root of most of our educational problems.)

OF COURSE IT IS: ‘Trumbo’ is a whitewash of an unrepentant Hollywood commie.

NEWS FROM MY FIELD: Advance and Retreat.

I WISH IT WERE SILLY:Whose hands are on the warning triggers?

INSTEAD IT ECLIPSED PARIS: How New York City could have looked like Paris.

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE: Migration crisis: EU gambles on sweeteners for Africa.

THEY ALSO SERVE: Homefront heroine: Sybil Stockdale’s fight for MIAs, POWs.

SO, THEY TOO HAD POLITICIANS? Giant Rat Fossils Help Track Human Activity in Southeast Asia.

THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY IS NOT ALL ABOUT LIGHT SABERS: Distant world’s weather is mixed bag of hot dust, molten rain.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Earthquakes: Fact versus Fiction.

BACKBONES HAVE BEEN AROUND A LONG TIME: Complex skeletons evolved earlier than realized, fossils suggest.