April 17, 2013: Afternoon
- Trauma surgeons at Boston faced the difficult decision of whether to amputate legs of those whose lives revolve around running.
- What the New York Post got right.
- Washington, Moscow, and Beijing are in a standstill over Iran, Syria, and North Korea—thankfully, everyone wants the same outcome.
- Whether parents choose to vaccinate is influenced by peers—to win over naysayers, doctors must influence the influencers.
- Our tendency toward prejudice occurs on a microscopic level—the slightest cues become motivation to exclude.
- An ethnographic study of elevator user experience documents where different people stand and how they act.
- Related: Why we press the elevator call button when it's already illuminated.
- A report from India, where every two hours a woman dies from an unsafe abortion.
- Madonna banned from Russia for "illegal commercial activity"—or supporting an anti-Putin group.
- The significance of Thatcher's funeral hymns.
- Dispatches from free food events for DC insiders.
- U.S. maps show state laws surrounding whether or not you can eat roadkill.
- Domestic air travel in the U.S. is safer, faster, and better than ever.
- Related: When Ricky Gervais and Louis C.K. flew to New York and back.