April 15, 2013: Morning
- On Sunday, while the world watched for signs of nuclear aggression, Pyongyang held a marathon with runners from 16 nations.
- As a result, the overwhelming majority of chemicals in use today have never been independently tested for safety.
- Animated gifs of infomercial disasters.
- Among the diplomatic archives published by Wikileaks: an alert from June 1973 that a British importer was watering down U.S. bourbon.
- Mark Bittman's paella master recipe.
- A history lesson in Pad Thai—and the ur-recipe.
- Eating every item on the Masters menu in one day.
- By creating fake cities to control land use, former CIA operatives and lawyers helped pave the way for Disney World.
- In 1952 she was the first American woman invited to join Mexico's matador union.
- Fantastic profile of the awe-inspiring David Lee Roth, who has lived every one of his lives to its fullest.
- Mickey Rose, Woody Allen's childhood co-conspirator and a writer on Take the Money and Run and Bananas, dies at 77.
- John Warner remembers his great uncle, an author whose name you may not know—but whose classic story you do.
- David Sedaris on love and taxidermy.