When reading and memes collide.

• The fairly entertaining GIFs from last night’s debate? (Jump to the last couple if you’re short on time.) —Asher Klein

• Or Ann Friedman’s version? —Sam Worley

• This op-ed in the NYT on sniffing police dogs and our right to privacy? (The Supreme Court will consider how much the dogs should be allowed to nose around.) —Steve Bogira

• Steven Hyden on the ebb and flow of George Michael’s career and the current relevance of Faith to the pop-music canon? —Kevin Warwick

• That the European Southern Observatory discovered “the first planet with a mass similar to Earth ever found around Alpha Centauri B, part of the nearest star system to Earth”? —Ben Sachs and Philip Montoro

• That Christian Science Monitor piece about pot legalization possibly, maybe catching on in middle America? —Mara Shalhoup

• About Rahm’s plan to give the arts “core subject” status? —Tony Adler

• The Tumblr of meerkats that look like anti-EU Brit Nigel Farage? (Hey one-percenters, he’s your guy.) —Kate Schmidt