Ars Technica explains Why Johnny can’t stream: How video copyright went insane. It's a great explanation of both law and tech and how ugly things get when tech works around law (or tries to).
WonkBlog asks and answers The Texas fertilizer plant explosion is horrific. But how common is this?. I didn't realize that the fertilizer industry is growing because the natural gas industry is booming.
Peter Horvath writes in Medium, Everything I knew about food was wrong.
The New Yorker explains Why Boston's Hospitals Were Ready. Since 9/11 and Iraq there's been a change in how emergency response is orchestrated and it seems to have been really successful as "it now appears that every one of the wounded alive when rescuers reached them will survive."
Businessweek claims to explain Why Cell Phone Networks Fail in Emergencies but it really does more to debunk the 'police shut down the cell network' myth. Cell towers can handle about 150-200 calls at once and in emergencies they max out. Text and data (particularly Twitter) can be queued up and squeak through, so they're better in those cases.
Neil Irwin describes What the Reinhart-Rogoff debacle tells us about the mysteries of macroeconomics. It's nice background on the field and the study.
The NY Daily News talks to Salah Barhoum, who the NY Post plastered on its front page and called a bag man. Boston Marathon spectator Salah Barhoum, who was interviewed by authorities following the bombings, swears he 'didn't do it'.
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