April 23, 2013: Afternoon
- Obama given poor marks for lacking Lyndon Johnson's toughness during the gun-control fight; supporters say DC has changed since Johnson's era.
- Related: "The Ghost of Gun Control."
- K-Pop's "neon bubble" distances South Koreans from pre-separation history and Kim Jong-un's threats.
- In the wreckage of the recent gold crash, profiles of five high-flying financiers who lost big in the selloff.
- Bank secrecy is dying in Europe thanks mainly to America's "flying taxman."
- Poison control centers received over 200 calls last year related to the "cinnamon challenge," with at least 30 teens needing medical attention.
- Photographer Platon explains how to get world leaders to open up for portrait pictures.
- Only Terrence Malick can simultaneously create endless beauty and endless boredom.
- See also: Photographs of airplanes being torched on purpose.
- West Texas fertilizer plant's last full inspection was 28 years ago.
- In the first quarter this year, ticket sales for American movies in China fell 65%, to about $200 million, while sales for Chinese-language films rose 128%, to well over $500 million.
- Singapore retains colonial ban on homosexual acts, for which violators can spend up two two years in jail.
- Assessment of Mexican wine.
- At this time, we only know of three dinosaurs that had a taste for sushi.
- Ze Frank explains intimate details about duck anatomy in a manner that is likely unsuitable for the workplace.