Links for you. Science:

How Indonesia’s gigantic fires are making global warming worse
Warmer, Acidic Oceans Mean Hungrier Predators, More Microbes, And Less Of Everything Else
Soil boring? My take on the image problem of soil science.
Sandboxes Are Disgusting: They can also be dangerous (cool parasitology)
A New Map Traces the Limits of Computation: A major advance reveals deep connections between the classes of problems that computers can — and can’t — possibly do.

Other:

Dear GOP: Washington Hates You Even More Than You Hate Us. D.C. residents would like Republicans to stop sending them their village idiots (this is the difference between official Washington, aka Wor-Shing-Tun, and D.C. Remember any of these bozos have the ability to overturn D.C.’s laws)
The Dirty War
Person First Project – Chris: “The only reason is housing.”
Ermahgerddon: The Untold Story of the Ermahgerd Girl
Concrete Details: La Casa in Columbia Heights Is a Rare Aesthetic and Policy Success
Theranos’ Scandal Exposes the Problem With Tech’s Hype Cycle
Hillary Clinton Is Wrong About Edward Snowden
Increase in Homelessness Affecting City Real Estate, Brokers Say
Rich People Scared to Move into High Rent Apartments Because of Homeless Displaced by High Rents
Is the mainstream media in the tank for Clinton?
Tom Engelhardt: The Fog of Intelligence, or How to Be Eternally ‘Caught Off Guard’ in the Greater Middle East
My Teacher Evaluation was affected because I couldn’t work free overtime to finish data entry…
DC church claims that a proposed bike lane violates their religious freedom
Playing Dirty: Dartmouth Group Mocks Indigenous Day with ‘Native Thong’
Why We’re Not Leaving Afghanistan Any Time Soon
Earliest Known Draft of King James Bible Is Found, Scholar Says