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Weekend Reads 8/1/15

It’s not who he is, it’s who he hates: The secret to Donald Trump’s toxic appeal

Racism and xenophobia are operative here, no doubt. But Trump’s brand of populist rage is rather free-floating; and his supporters seem to be even more passionate about his domestic foes. As Elspeth Reeve put it in the New Republic, some Trumpites love him because he is so aggressively politically incorrect. “He doesn’t know what ‘PC’ means,” as one New Hampshire supporter raved. For these people, Reeve writes, Trump is appealing because “he violates social taboos but not their own political sensibilities.” He says what they believe but don’t have the guts to say for themselves.

'What lion?' Zimbabweans ask, amid global Cecil circus

For most people in the southern African nation, where unemployment tops 80 percent and the economy continues to feel the after-effects of billion percent hyperinflation a decade ago, the uproar had all the hallmarks of a 'First World Problem'.

Beam Me Up? Teleporting Is Real, Even If Trekkie Transport Isn't

The particular arrangement of an atom's electrons, or protons, or neutrons is what makes it special. Now, it's not quite as simple as looking at how everything is placed inside the atom. The laws of quantum mechanics say that "measuring" an atom's information will destroy it.

Instead, researchers have to use this complex system of lasers to transpose some of that information from one atom to another.

So who is a ‘real’ GOP candidate?

Like Tiger Woods circa 2000, the leaders in the field aren't terribly worried about where the cut-off line is drawn. But for those who are not well above the line, there's a push to redraw it.

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