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Health

Zika-Fighting, Genetically-Modified Mosquitoes Are Coming to Florida
An island in the Florida Keys makes the perfect testing ground for Oxitec's bugs.
Kaleigh Rogers
8.5.16
JUSTICE

Americans Don't Care About Prison Phone Exploitation, Says FCC Official
Federal regulators are trying to lower sky-high phone rates for inmates and their families, which advocate say reduces recidivism.
Sam Gustin
8.5.16
Art

Blue Lightning Appears Over Seattle Art Fair | Insta of the Week
See it and other shining, selfie-worthy stars of the Seattle Art Fair.
Beckett Mufson
8.5.16
News

People Are Playing 'Pokémon Go' at a Monument for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
It's not the first time trainers have been spotted at inappropriate places.
Hilary Beaumont
8.5.16
The beer idiot

The Beer Idiot's Guide to Olympic Drinking Games
Normally I’d be the first guy to tell you that drinking games are for frat boys and other repressed types, but the summer Olympics in Brazil call for desperate measures.
Jesse Farrar
8.5.16
Film

An Interview with Todd Solondz, America's Darkest Filmmaker
We speak to the 'Welcome to the Dollhouse' director about feeling like an outsider and making movies about mortality.
Hannah Ewens
8.5.16
Rio 2016

Strange Summer Olympic Sports: Are They Good? An Investigation
An evidence-based look into whether the weirder sports on offer at the Summer Olympics—your horse-dancing and skeet shooting and so on—are actually good to watch.
Corbin Smith
8.5.16
Art

Skateboarding Is Officially an Olympic Sport | GIF Six-Pack
Forget Rio, our minds are wandering to Tokyo 2020.
TCP Staff
8.5.16
ANIMALS

'We Get Death Threats': The Teen 'Lizbians' Who Risk Everything to Rate Lizards
The two 17-year-old girls behind We Rate Lizards explain how they became the most sought-after reptile critics on the internet.
Gabby Bess
8.5.16
Rio 2016

Community Colleges, the Overlooked Rio Olympics Pipeline
Millions of Americans enroll in community colleges each year, and among them are high-level athletes just waiting for a chance to prove themselves. Forty-four will get a chance at the Rio Games.
Mary Pilon
8.5.16
florida gators

Woman Boycotting Title IX Hearing with Gators WR Because Florida Appointed Football Booster to Preside
This is a really dumb move from Florida.
Sean Newell
8.5.16
Rio 2016

Pele to Sit Out Opening Ceremonies, Citing Health Issues
The Olympic torch lighting is to take place in the stadium where Pele scored his 1,000th goal in 1969, before bringing home his country their third World Cup.
Liam Daniel Pierce
8.5.16
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