Weekly Filet #146: The President's License to Kill. And more.
Written in the frenzied, emotional days after 9/11, the «Authorization for the Use of Military Force» was intended to give President Bush the ability to retaliate against whoever orchestrated the attacks. But more than 12 years later, this one broadly-phrased sentence remains the primary legal justification for nearly every covert operation around the world. Buzzfeed has a brilliant longread on how that sentence came to be, the one woman who voted against it and what it’s since come to mean.
→ 60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History (Buzzfeed)
We've been in tears for all kinds of different emotions. Turns out that under the microscope, tears of grief look different from tears of laughing (not to speak of onion tears).
→ The Topography of Tears (Rose-Lynn Fisher)
You will never look at your list of priorities the same way. Why Prioritized Feature Lists Can Be Poisonous.
→ Babe Ruth and Feature Lists (Medium)
This alone gives you a weekend full of interesting reads. 174 answers to the question «What Scientific Idea Is Ready For Retirement?», this year's Edge-question.
→ 2014 Question: What Scientific Idea Is Ready For Retirement? (Edge)
And for an entertaining challenge: 100 famous movie quotes as charts. It will feel like this: *gazesandthinkshard* – «Ha, that's a great one!»
→ Famous movie quotes as charts (Flowing Data)