Sunday roundup

The increase in coal mining in Donetsk is more black lung than silver lining but okay. India, too, is doubling down on the dirtiest fuel.

Journalists have caught on to kidnappers' tactics, are avoiding Syria.

Netanyahu had two jobs.

Roald Dahl's passionate plea for vaccination.

Reproductibility is at the core of scientific research. It's also an iterative process.

Insights from a previous bout of resistance to settled science: ozone-layer depletion.

GMOs in and of themselves may not be a problem, but superweeds are.

The world can't keep eating so much meat.

Restaurant staff accuses black man of begging (from his wife).

Shocker: Nazis are not the master race they think they are.

Ladies: to paraphrase Machiavelli, it's better to get $hit done than to be liked.

Personal experience aside, I refuse to believe,

“There are plenty of single men out there,” Dr. Fisher added. “I know that men suffer just as much as women do from loneliness. Moreover, men fall in love faster than women, they fall in love more often, and when men find a sweetheart, they want to introduce her to friends and family sooner.”

She added, “It does suggest that men are just as dependent on stable relationships and good family communication as women are — indeed, I suspect a bit more so.”

that most guys are men-children.

Some people thought Katy Perry would do wonders for one Missy Elliot (not unlike Kanye West would do for Sir Paul McCartney).

Surely Carlos Lozada could have found worse sentences than these (even in good books).