The way things have been going for Dan Price lately, you'd think he had spent his summer hunting endangered lions in Zimbabwe. In fact, the Gravity CEO gained top news notoriety when he decided to cut his own salary and raise his company's minimum wage to $70K a year. The move was widely celebrated in the media. But since then, several customers have departed, some key employees split because they viewed the salary hike for new employees to be unfair, and Price's co-founder (and older brother) has filed a lawsuit that could potentially crush the company. They say there's no such thing as bad P.R. But maybe there can be such a thing as too much P.R. From the NYT: A company copes with backlash against the raise that roared.

"We're the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it. We only get one home. We only get one planet. There's no Plan B." President Obama outlined the goals of his Clean Power Plan during a DC press conference that had to be moved indoors because it was so hot outside.

"At one point, I asked Wilson if he missed walking outside and going to restaurants. He told me that he still ate out, but only at certain places. We try to go somewhere -- how do I say this correctly? -- with like-minded individuals ... You know. Where it's not a mixing pot." (Keep in mind that he was talking to a reporter and he paused to make sure he said it correctly.) The relationship between police and black communities is getting a close look these days. And that all started when Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson. The New Yorker's Jake Halpern visited with Wilson, who has twice been exonerated of criminal wrongdoing, but might still be guilty of just not getting it.

"Crazy, right? I kind of felt like Bruce Wayne." Like many of his neighbors, Sidney Torres was wildly dissatisfied with the policing that was being done in the French Quarter. So Torres decided to do something about it. He created his own high tech police force. The specifics of this story are unique (and pretty amazing), but the slow merging of public and private security forces is a trend worth noting. From NYT Mag: Who runs the streets of New Orleans?

Some are outraged by the lion killing. Others are outraged that such limited outrage is missing broader issues like animal endangerment and dentist on dentist crime. And still others are furious that the whole meme is distracting us from the more important topics about which we should be outraged. There's only one solution. Let's go meta and be outraged by the Internet outrage machine.

+ Vox: Internet mob justice is random and severe. So is formal criminal justice.

"Heroin is like Aladdin's lamp: it will make you think that your wishes are coming true, that you are in control of your life." From VIce: My life as a Brooklyn junkie.

A new study suggests that there could be a link between picky eating as a child and later anxiety, depression and ADHD. It's critical to note that the study's authors do not suggest a causal relationship. (Things will be a lot more simple when we all just eat Soylent.)

The UFC fight between Ronda Rousey And Bethe Correia was so short it can be squeezed into a single animated GIF. My tech-heavy Twitter stream lit up when Rousey won her latest match. The only thing that could get nerds more excited about Ronda Rousey is if she took her prize money in Bitcoin.

+ CNN: Why UFC antihero Ronda Rousey is such a big deal.

+ WSJ: Ronda Rousey Is unstoppable.

+ And a sports story that's more my speed: Ultimate frisbee takes a major leap toward becoming an Olympic sport.

According to a small but interesting study, men are freezing women out of the work place. By using the thermostat. And from Wired: Why men and women battle over the office thermostat.

+ Related: Great leaps forward in ice cream history.

"HitchBot, the talking, tweeting, hitchhiking robot that tries to traverse continents on the kindness of strangers," made it across Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands without any major incidents. Then it stuck out its motorized thumb in Philadelphia and someone beat the crap out of it.

+ I just hope our robot overlords can differentiate between the humans who broke the Hitchbot and those of us who are, shall we say, not from Philly. In the meantime, beware of the tiny drones that navigate with insect eyes.

+ The League, "a Tinder for elites" had an exclusive party in Montauk over the weekend. So what? I bet the Tinder for non-elites hosted an orgy in Newark.