April 16, 2014
- The UN/African Union mission purposefully misled the public about the worsening situation in Darfur.
- Prominent female Republican argues increasing men's job prospects is the best way to ensure women's economic—and marital—happiness.
- The landscape of hate groups and hate crimes in the US.
- India becomes the first nation to legally recognize a third gender.
- Norway is sitting on the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, about $850 billion, funded entirely by state oil and gas industries.
- The issue of refugees is bringing Europe into direct conflict with its own self-image.
- The polio epidemic in Cold War Hungary killed more than 3,000 children, unable to access the vaccine behind the Iron Curtain.
- The price of one house in London is equal to the price of about five houses in Atlanta.
- In 31 states, parents have to shell out more annually for infant child care than for a year of tuition and fees at a mid-priced state college.
- We like art more when we know an artist is eccentric, but only when we also believe their eccentricity is authentic.
- Banksy's newest installation shows a couple in love—with their smartphones.
- A literary editor discovers what may be the first emoticon.
- Bleak or beautiful? Introducing the "dronie," a drone-snapped selfie.
- "The Man With the Yellow Hat Goes to Therapy."
- Join Google Maps on an immersive nighttime walking tour through the back alleys of Marseilles.
- A guide to bad Chinese food.
- A cosmic diamond ring is the best way to describe the haunting beauty of a distant star in its final moments of life.