Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently held talks with North Korea following last month’s historic summit between President Trump and Kim Jong-Un in Singapore. Mike Pompeo spoke highly of the nuclear talks, but the North Koreans have a different interpretation. 

Even the most diehard football fans are calling this year’s World Cup one of the greatest of all time. Some of the less excitable fans say that whichever World Cup is currently underway is the best World Cup of all time, but that’s not to say that this Cup isn’t exceptional. And besides thrills, underdog stories, and excitement, this World Cup has offered loads of meme-able moments. Here are a few of our favorites.

Hawaii made US history this week by becoming the first state to ban the sale of sunscreens containing the oxybenzone and octinoxate, which are believed to harm the coral reef system. Obviously, some sunscreen manufacturers protested the ban. Some medical professionals also protested the ban because nearly 70% of the sunscreens on the market are now banned, causing professionals to worry that locals won’t have easy enough access to sunscreen, putting them at risk for skin cancer.

Do you know the name Peter Norman? Probably not, since almost no one knows his name. But, oddly enough, nearly everyone has seen him. That’s because he’s the white guy in the famous 1968 Olympics photo of the gold and bronze medalists raising their first. In fact, Normal participated in Tommie Smith and John Carlos’s protest. First, Norman supplied the gloves that they’re wearing. Second, Norman wore an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge on his jacket. This surprised Smith and Carlos because Norman came from Australia, a country also under apartheid. 

The “Wolf of Wall Street” was a powerful indictment of Wall Street culture––the love of money, the love of material possessions, the love of greed itself, and the lavishness of the super wealthy. Watching the Jordan ruin his life in the most spectacular way makes the viewer hate him and everything he represents. That theme flows through the movie…until the end. Enter this video. This video suggests that the final scene of the movie turns it into an indictment of us, the viewer. 

Last year, a public interest law firm worked with Detroit public school students to take a case to court arguing that they were being deprived of a fundamental right: literacy. “The lawsuit took pains to illustrate how Detroit’s schools — run under a state-appointed emergency manager — were a welter of dysfunction: overcrowded classrooms, lack of textbooks and basic materials, unqualified staff, leaking roofs, broken windows, black mold, contaminated drinking water, rodents, no pens, no paper, no toilet paper, and unsafe temperatures that had classes canceled due to 90-degree heat or classrooms so cold students could see their breath.” Students said they memorized movie quotes from watching them so much, but they didn’t really learn anything else. 

Unfortunately, a court has ruled that all the state needs to do is run a school, not necessarily run it well. Literacy is not, therefore, a fundamental right.

In 2014, Facebook made stricter guidelines for third party apps. They announced that third party access to user data had been shut down, but according to recent documents Spotify gave sixty-one companies extended access. Snap, Panasonic, Oracle, AOL, Nissan, Nike, Spotify, UPS, Apple, Amazon, and the Chinese smartphone giant Huawei. A spokesperson for Facebook said that the “purpose of these partnerships was to build Facebook and Facebook features into the partners’ devices and other products.”

Plastic is all around us. It’s on the computer you’re using right now, the TV you watch at night, your car, your disposable containers, and you even store your food in it. That would be all well and good, except plastic lasts nearly forever. So when you throw away your plastics, or when your plastic accidentally gets blown away in the wind, it winds up in the ocean or the woods far, far past our lifetimes. 

On Sunday, December 4, 2016, Edgar Maddison Welch, armed with an assault rifle, entered a Washington D.C. pizzeria called Comet Ping Pong. He was there to “self-investigate” claims that the restaurant’s owner, a vocal supporter of and vigorous fundraiser for the Democratic Party, operated a pedophilia ring. According to the amateur investigators on the case, …

Police cars are a fact of modern life. Everyone driving down the highway knows exactly what to look for. Though cop cars vary from town to town, but there are a few general similarities: sirens, grills, lights on the side, and special color schemes. Of course there weren’t always police cars. They had to get cars in the prohibition period to chase bootleggers. Once police got cars, they needed ways to alert the people that their cars were not civilian cars. Hence the paint, and then the sirens. After that came the speed.

The UK government is planning to ban so-called “gay conversion therapy.” The controversial technique uses a variety of methods to convince or cajole members of the LGBTQ community that they are not, in fact, LGBTQ. It treats being gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender as a mental illness. From the article: “The £4.5 million initiative follows a survey of LGBT people that found 2% of the 108,000 respondents had undergone conversion therapy while 5% had been offered it.” The ban is meant to counter anti-LGBTQ discrimination. 

In the Victorian era, some people were terrified of being buried alive. It was so bad that some designed graves had bells planted near the headstones and wires that ran into the coffin. If someone were to wake up buried in their coffin, they could pull the bell and get help. The fear of being buried alive has long since died out, but maybe we shouldn’t get too comfortable. In South Africa, a woman was delivered to a hospital in an ambulance, and the she allegedly had no signs of life. She was put in the morgue, but she was later found alive by a morgue worker.