Links for you. Science:

Geographic Disparity of Severe Vision Loss — United States, 2009–2013 (one more bad health indicator for the U.S. South)
Gene turns female mosquitoes into males
Scientists Map 5,000 New Ocean Viruses: In the few decades since viruses were first found in the oceans, scientists have only been able to identify a handful of species. A new survey has uncovered nearly all the rest. (if they had done this with PacBio or Oxford Nanopore…)
What’s Next for the Microbiome? (your chance to influence federal funding policy; shit or get off the pot, so to speak….)
What the Oil Spill Off Santa Barbara Is Going to Kill

Other:

A Plea for Culinary Modernism: The obsession with eating natural and artisanal is ahistorical. We should demand more high-quality industrial food (excellent)
We Need Antibiotics. They’re Not Profitable To Make. Who Pays?
Slander On The Cuyahoga: What Cleveland Police Tried To Do. In which we learn what happens when there is no videotape
Is Uber Dangerous for Women?
7 in 10 schools now have shooting drills, needlessly traumatizing huge numbers of children
Silent for decades, underground theater set to be revived
This Church Might Not Look Like Anything Special, Until You See It From Different Angles
Kansas has found the ultimate way to punish the poor
This rich Texas jackass murdered a black rhino and now thinks he’s the f*cking saint of conservation
Homo economicus or homo paleas? (it’s not that often I agree with Cochrane…)
Decency of Irish not limited to liberal Dublin
‘Prisonized’ neighborhoods make ex-cons more likely to return to the slammer
Strikethrough (Fatality): The origins of online stalking of abortion providers.
HTML9 Responsive Boilerstrap JS (funny)
Ireland has left ‘tolerance’ far behind: LGBT community has given all of Irish democracy one of its greatest days