Links for you. Science:

Anvi’o: a new platform to work with metagenomic data
Pentagon Now Admits It Shipped Live Anthrax To All States, Nine Countries
How Giving Up Refined Sugar Changed My Brain (n = 1)
Movile Cave has been cut off for millions of years. Its air is thick with poison, yet it is home to an array of strange animals
D.C. Needle Exchange Dropped HIV Transmission Rates

Other:

Should Louisiana and the Recovery School District receive accolades for being last and nearly last? (pdf)
Louisiana Charters Are by Far the Worst According to 2011 8th-Grade NAEP Anaysis
Fed Up With Metro? There Will Soon Be A Riders’ Union For That
WMATA admits there’s a problem with the culture
Top Metro Official Resigns In Wake Of Safety Lapse: D.C. board representatives say they have “no confidence” in WMATA
Congressional Black Caucus Still Trying to Hurt Their Constituents By Killing the Labor Department Fiduciary Rule
How the Federal Government Built White Suburbia
How Trump Exposed the Tea Party
How an Ohio reporter helped convict more than 100 rapists
Tajikistan creates planet, names it after self
The Shocking Truth About Donald Trump: He’s Actually the Least Terrifying GOP Candidate
Selling plasma to survive: how over a million American families live on $2 per day
New York’s electricity market is a scam
The icebreaker gap
How one of America’s last free colleges screwed its students and betrayed its legacy