- Highest-paid CEOs run worst-performing companies, research finds (The Independent) Money quote, “Has CEO pay reflected long-term stock performance? In a word, “no.”” Original study here.
- Gluten sensitivity without celiac disease takes place due to weakened gut (PerfScience) A year ago there were studies saying that non celiac gluten sensitivity was a mirage.
- The Ghost of King Leopold II Still Haunts Us (Media Diversified) King Leopold’s actions in Congo at the end of the 19th Century not only killed over 10 million Congolese, it appears to have led to the cross species viral transfer that eventually became AIDS.
- Australia’s latitude and longitude coordinates out by more than 1.5 metres, scientists say (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Australia moves by about 7cm a year. Get your cartographic geek on.
- Everything Is Broken (Medium) A nice survey on just how criminally insecure pretty much every piece of software is.
- David Cameron’s premiership is a tragedy for which we will all pay (The Guardian) Righteous! “The most disastrous premiership since Neville Chamberlain is about to draw to a brutally abrupt end.”
- Antibiotic resistance: ‘Snot wars’ study yields new class of drugs (BBC) Ahhh…The wonders of nature.
- ‘Pokémon GO’ Found In Toxic Nuclear Plant In Japan: Authorities Say Stay Away (Forbes) Yes, stay very far away.
- The best British political insults (The Telegraph) It does seem to be a British area of excellence.
- Beyond #BlackLivesMatter: police reform must be bolstered by legal action (The Guardian) Makes the obvious point that court decisions over the past 40 years have enabled arbitrary search and seizure and arrest by police, along with doing their level best to subvert meaningful reviews of killings by police. As an aside, Merrick Garland, Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee, is particularly awful in this regard.
Lamas with hats, seriously bent: