Weekly Filet #118: Magnetic Justice. And more.
This week's top recommendation
In the end, it was a close 5:4 vote. The Supreme Court of the USA has ruled this week that limiting marriage to heterosexuals is unconstitutional. Here's an unusual take on the matter: The voting behaviour of the nine justices can be modelled by comparing them to magnets. Yes, magnets.
→ The physics of magnets can model how Supreme Court judges vote (Empirical Zeal)
Further recommendations
Ernest Hemingway had a haunting story of no more than six words: «for sale baby shoes never worn.» This six-icon story comes pretty close (you navigate through the story by tapping).
→ All In a Day's Work (Tapestry)
This sounds like fun: A tech-enabled, super-difficult scavenger hunt through a New York City night..
→ Inside the epic, all-night, Goldman Sachs scavenger hunt (Quartz)
Your friends and familiy are going to hate me for telling you this.
→ How To Use Math To Crush Your Friends At Monopoly (Business Insider)
Things will turn nasty, don't say I didn't warn you.
→ The 10 Worst Ways to Die in the Wild (Outside Magazine)