Headlines of the Week (Or Whatever)

Online Shoppers Are Less Likely To Buy Items Modeled By Someone with Tattoos or Dark Skin

Utilities Feeling Rooftop Solar Heat Start Fighting Back

Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet: How one of the most notorious alleged hustlers in the history of e-commerce made a fortune on the Web

Ancient stone bridge revealed after Chinese lake dries up

Tweet Police: Kansas’ ability to fire professors for posting on social media is bad news for academic freedom—and may not even be legal.

Headlines of the Week (Or Whatever)

Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail; How HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists. And got away with it.

Apple dodges $9.2 billion tax bill, could have funded majority of sequester.

ArmyTimes Report: VA lobotomized 2,000 disturbed veterans

Old school vs. new school as academic publishers brawl over Web
A startup hip to the ways of the Web and a publishing rival from pre-Net days are trying to teach each other a lesson. It's a tussle involving research papers and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

What Nelson Mandela's life tells us about the legitimacy of "democratic nations