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Beck Diefenbach / Reuters Once the province of U.S. tech hubs such as California’s Silicon Valley, venture capital has gone global.

One part of one frame from Glittering.Blue, capturing Indonesia, much of South Asia and mainland China, and Typhoon Sudelor JMA / Charlie Loyd The Japanese weather satellite Himawari-8 sits 22,000 miles from Earth in orbit.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A man poses with a machine gun aboard the U.S.S. Indiana, in 1895. Library of Congress Hiram Maxim didn’t set out to invent a killing machine. But a lifetime of tinkering and building eventually led Maxim, who called himself a “chronic inventor,” to design and build the world’s first portable and fully automatic gun.

Roger Schneider / AP A coalition of some of America’s biggest companies is organizing a trucklift for Flint, promising to deliver 6.5 million bottles of water to the city in order to provide clean drinking

Wavebreak Media Ltd. / Corbis Imagine you’ve spent the last few years writing a manuscript. You submit it to a publisher, and they make you an offer: They’ll print it, but once it’s published, they own your work.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Eric Risberg / AP According to some statistics, sexual assault is virtually nonexistent at U.S. colleges and universities.

I just learned the movie Natural Born Killers was inspired by two teenagers on a murder spree in 1950s Nebraska. This reader remembers it all too well: My earliest memory of guns was in the late 1950s, when Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Fugate, were terrorizing Nebraska.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Steve McQueen celebrating the Oscar victory of '12 Years a Slave' in 2014. Lucy Nicholson / Reuters In 2014, Steve McQueen made history at the Oscars as the first black director of a Best Picture-winning movie, 12 Years a Slave.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Steven Senne / AP They say it doesn't matter what you major in during college. It might matter, however, if you want your personality to match your chosen field—lest you end up the lone nod-greeter in a marketing class full of exploding fistbumps.

Officers stand outside the Supreme Court in Washington on January 22. Susan Walsh / AP The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in Montgomery v. Alabama that its ban on mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juvenile offenders also applied retroactively, making more than 2,000 inmates nationwide eligible for resentencing or the possibility of eventual freedom.