April 15, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- In case you haven't noticed, thanks to Republican politicians, North Carolina is currently going out of its mind.
- In 2012, 20,000 Americans used guns to commit suicide.
- Military translators in Afghanistan wait endlessly for visas to the United States while remaining targeted by the Taliban.
- Details about today's era of Martian exploration.
- Jenna Marbles and other YouTube stars for the most part "just stay in our houses, alone, making videos."
- See also: Open letter to "all the white girls who didn’t get into the college of their dreams."
- Theories about life if we all died at 40.
- Recently born: Biggles George Fittleworth Jackson-Kew and his sister, Posie Betsy Winifred Jackson-Kew, who have an older sister named Tuppence.
- American parenting characterized as trying “to push stimulation to the maximum without going over the edge into dysregulation of basic state control.”
- Rwanda's street typists, who produce CVs, business proposals, and love letters for those without access to computers, fear their jobs will soon be meaningless.
- As winter winds up, some high-art compositions from one of snowboarding's best photographers.
- Oscar-winning sound designer itemizes the various animal cries that went into the roars of Jurassic Park's dinosaurs.
- Eleven of the world's most unusual elevators include one featuring over 1,500 fish of 50 species.
- Health news: Ball chairs provide no benefits, but they may hurt your butt.
