"Zac is one of the first teenagers in the history of teenagers whose adult personality will be shaped by which apps he uses, how frequently he texts, and whether he's on Facebook or Instagram or Twitter or Snapchat." Meet Generation Screen. Popular Mechanics provides a glimpse into the lives of the first generation that doesn't remember life before smartphones. (That life required real life social interactions, eye contact, and emotional intelligence. In other words, it was terrible.)

+ A recent study found that U.K. kids are increasingly credulous about things they read online, and many teens couldn't tell the difference between search results and ads.

+ From Vice: I hired a Millennial life coach. (Win one for the hipster.)

At least 20 people were killed during an Al Qaeda siege of a hotel in Mali. U.S. and French special forces helped to free many hostages. From Bloomberg: Mali's rumbling conflict that led to the hotel hostage-taking.

+ Up until several months ago, she was described as "a French national of Moroccan origin who lived a secular lifestyle, which included heavy drinking and attending nightclubs." How did a young woman known for wearing cowboy hats end up blowing herself up during a raid on the apartment she shared with the ringleader of the Paris attacks? And from Vox: How do ordinary people become terrorists?

+ Of those people living in the U.S. who have been indicted for connections to ISIS, 81% are Americans. None are from Syria.

+ Donald Trump suggested that America might need a special registry or ID system for Muslims. Tayyib M. Rashid had a pretty good response.

In Matter, Rachel Syme ponders the meaning of the Selfie: "What selfie-haters fear, deep down, is a growing army of faces they cannot monitor, an army who does not need their approval to march ahead. They fear the young, the technologically savvy, the connected. They fear a community they feel excludes them." (The only thing I fear is my extra chin-skin being captured from the wrong angle.)

+ "What they described resembles a medieval reality show." WaPo takes you inside the surreal world of the Islamic State's propaganda machine.

+ "It looked like a battlefield." The full story of what happened in the Bataclan.

+ "Every season since 1971, the gaping maw of the whale awaits me. I am to be swallowed, along with the hopes of any baseball team I care about, into the belly of the beast and spit up in time to do it all again when pitchers and catchers report. I gotta get right with God." David Simon: The frauds of memory, the limits of penitence. And baseball.

After students staged a 32-hour sit-in, Princeton administrators signed a document in which they agreed to open discussions about racial tensions on campus and to consider removing the name of one famous graduate from some public spaces. President Woodrow Wilson.

"There's very little real science -- despite Nike commercials that say otherwise -- supporting the idea that filling running shoes with pressurized air makes you a better athlete. Recent research actually suggests the opposite." Gizmodo on the absurd history of Nike Air Technology.

+ Quartz: 1,200 people are killed each year over sneakers.

Thirty years after being sentenced to life in prison for spying on the U.S. for Israel, the highly controversial Jonathan Poillard has been paroled. But the terms of his release are quite strict, so the controversy will likely continue.

"There are reasons to suspect that the trouble with forensics is built into its foundation -- that, indeed, forensics can never attain reliable scientific status." Boston Review on forensic pseudoscience and the unheralded crisis of criminal justice.

In Singapore, six megachurch officials were jailed after being convicted of diverting millions of donated dollars towards an effort to fund the music career of the pastor's wife. Her pop career didn't get that far, but she's now running the church.

As the final installment of Hunger Games starts raking in dough at the box office, the movie PR team has decided to remove Jennifer Lawrence's likeness from the posters in places like a section of Jerusalem where such images of women are vandalized because they "might incite the feelings of the city's residents."

Cornell researchers spent a couple weeks watching adults eat at an Italian restaurant to determine that men eat nearly twice as much pizza when they're dining with women. Uh, yeah. It's called carbo-loading. (And will all you researchers stop watching us for five minutes so we can enjoy a meal...)

+ Daily News: Washington D.C. twerk attack victim forgives dirty dancers. "I'm willing to let go of all my pain that I had inside, of the humiliation, and direct it towards the improvement of her life."

+ Steph and Dell Curry play a game of Horse.