April 20, 2012: Morning
- Global approval of U.S. leadership continues to decline, but is still higher than the final years of the Bush administration.
- Visualizations of demographic trends if the world were a village of 100 people.
- Key to U.S. recovery and growth aren't New York and Los Angeles, but America's "middleweight" cities.
- Larger, denser cities are cleaner and more energy efficient than smaller cities, suburbs, and even small towns.
- Few Egyptians can explain the rules governing the selection of the president and the drafting of the constitution.
- Kobe beef: If you've never been to Japan, you've never eaten it.
- Commerce and religion clash over India's growing beef trade.
- Explosives may be required to remove cows that wandered into a ranger cabin in the Rocky Mountains, then died and froze solid.
- Dermatologists say new UK coins could cause skin problems for those with nickel allergies or eczema.
- Jalopnik readers identify vehicle part, help police catch suspects in deadly hit and run.
- Man arrested for posting a photo of himself on Facebook siphoning gas from a police car.
- Market research for the YouTube era: NBC Universal creates a film unit to communicate with potential advertisers.
- How the movie Titanic could have ended.
- Penn and Teller lawsuit tests whether a magic trick can be copyrighted.