Weekend Reads

Where Will All the Water Go?

The age of Kayfabe

How a 15th Century Book on Witchcraft Helps Make Sense of Trump’s Bizarre Baby Execution Story

Ajit Pai’s robocall plan lets carriers charge for new call-blocking tools

Don’t Let Students Run the University

Human influence on drought started a century ago

The End Of Empathy

Breithaupt is alarmed at the apparent new virus of selective empathy and how it's deepening divisions. If we embrace it, he says, then "basically you give up on civil society at that point. You give up on democracy. Because if you feed into this division more and you let it happen, it will become so strong that it becomes dangerous."

Hackers could read non-corporate Outlook.com, Hotmail for six months

Confirmed: New phase of matter is solid and liquid at the same time

Potassium, too, has been subjected to much experimental scrutiny. When compressed to similar extremes, its atoms arrange themselves into an elaborate formation—five cylindrical tubes organized into an X shape, with four long chains sitting in the crooks of this assembly, almost like two separate and non-intertwining materials.

Abolishing The Electoral College Used To Be A Bipartisan Position. Not Anymore.