quote [ In a single year, the cartel suffered a 40 percent drop in marijuana sales, representing billions of dollars. Mexican marijuana became an almost worthless product. They've basically stopped growing the shit: Once-vast fields in Durango now lie fallow.

More good news, right?

Yeah, no. Guzmán and his boys are businessmen. They're not going to take a forty-point hit and not do something about it. They had to make up those profits somewhere. ]

quote [ THE BAUHAUS NEVER really died. Though the famed German art school existed in physical form for just 14 years, its legacy lives on in many ways. The latest incarnation: Harvard’s massive online archive. The school recently made more than 32,000 digitized artifacts—paintings, drawings, photos, sculptures, and more—available for browsing, and it’s a beautiful time-suck for design lovers. ]

quote [ Forced photos of politicians pretending they know how to do stuff like regular people are always horrible. Combine that with America’s toxic gun culture and you end up with every Republican running for president posing for pictures armed like they’re Mad Max. That’s why Matt Haughey took it upon himself to turn these photos upside down, replacing every gun with an enormous dildo. ]

quote [ This idea that nature is inherently probabilistic ? that particles have no hard properties, only likelihoods, until they are observed ? is directly implied by the standard equations of quantum mechanics. But now a set of surprising experiments with fluids has revived old skepticism about that worldview. ]