• Physics And Progress Of Low-Frequency Counterstealth Technology (Aviation Week) A nice survey how low frequency radars, phased array radars, and computer power can be used to minimize the benefits of stealth.
• LePage effectively endorses racial profiling in Maine’s battle against drug addiction (The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram) There is a reason that Charlie Pierce calls LePage a “Human Bowling Jacket.”
• Brain wiring needed for reading isn’t learned—it’s in place prior to reading (Ars Technica) If confirmed, it means that things like dyslexia can be addressed even earlier.
• A Cheaper Airbag, and Takata’s Road to a Deadly Crisis (The New York Times) They use the same stuff that blew up the Murrah building in Oklahoma City.
• This Alarm Clock Sex Toy Will Transform The Way You Orgasm (YourTango) Rule 34, no exception.
• How inmates are organizing a nationwide strike from behind bars (Waging Nonviolence) About bloody time. Prison labor has become a profit center, which is evil.
• Hillary Clinton’s National Security Advisers Are a “Who’s Who” of the Warfare State (The Intercept) Not a surprise. Clinton arguably has the most bellicose rhetoric of Presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan. My prediction: It will end with an arms for hostages exchange.

An interesting history of the failed Russian N-1 Moon Rocket