Scott Olson / Getty Images The NSA Could Actually Spy on More Phone Calls Under Reform Bill -- National Journal "Last month, the House passed the USA Freedom Act, which would force the NSA to give up its massive database of phone records, which contains phone numbers and timestamps of millions of landline calls. Under the bill, the NSA would have to receive court approval for each search of a phone company's records. "But the legislation includes a provision that would require the phone companies to provide 'technical assistance' to help the NSA collect the data in a readable format. "That provision could allow the NSA to more easily access millions of cell-phone records, according to Mark Jaycox, a legislative analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy-advocacy group." KING-TV Officials Hail Hero Students in Seattle Pacific University Shooting -- NBC News "The gunman walked into the lobby and fired multiple gunshots,...

West Antarctica ice sheet collapse: 'it will change the coastline of the world' -- The Guardian "The rise is pretty exceptional in historical terms, at rates that haven't been seen since the end of the last ice age. And this is the first time we are seeing rates like this with a very large human population. We have to adapt to it. For us as a society, that's a really big deal, it's going to have a destablising effect, it's going to be very expensive, and it's going to very hard." Why Neil deGrasse Tyson is a philistine -- The Week "He proudly proclaims his irritation with 'asking deep questions' that lead to a 'pointless delay in your progress' in tackling 'this whole big world of unknowns out there.' When a scientist encounters someone inclined to think philosophically, his response should be to say, 'I'm moving on, I'm leaving you behind, and you can't even cross the street because you...