April 2, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- China's mysterious duck, pig, and human deaths could point to a new pandemic on the horizon.
- Sanitation workers, it turns out, have twice the fatality rates of police offers, and nearly seven times the fatality rates of firefighters.
- A trans writer reports from both sides of the male gaze.
- Related: Charlie White's "Teen and Transgender Comparative Study."
- How "Harlem Shake" went viral: It wasn't the users, it was the corporations.
- Even Sony makes far more money today out of selling life insurance than it does out of making electronics.
- By 3D printing skeletons, students can have better access to study materials—and dorm décor.
- Chinese college student prepares and participates in her own funeral.
- Over time, the obituary-writing formula has changed from chronicling the ordinary to celebrating the extraordinary.
- Pattycake, the first gorilla born in New York City, died at the Bronx Zoo on Sunday.
- NYPD says "brazen daylight kidnapping" of a young couple in Washington Heights was part of a birthday joke.
- Related: From 2003, the New York artist who turn kidnapping into a designer adventure.
- Movies that were shot in chronological order—and why.
- A look ahead at the baseball season that could be: "Our Future National Pastime."
