April 26, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- With Tamerlan driving now, Danny in the passenger seat, and Dzhokhar behind Danny, they stopped in Watertown Center.
- The origins of the #FreeJahar movement—when teen fandom turns conspiracy theorist.
- Though Reddit's Boston bombing "investigation" was an unmitigated disaster, the internet can be surprisingly effective at solving crimes.
- If media covered America the way it covers foreign cultures.
- The abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine, 27 years after Chernobyl.
- Europe's economic crisis re-inspires a century-old tradition of "suspended coffee"—buying a stranger coffee with your order.
- New research shows vervet monkeys can pick up on social cues, changing their eating habits in order to fit in.
- An open letter to the Wikipedia editors who've decided to categorize American novelists as either "novelists" or "women novelists."
- The real danger of copying music.
- The practical joke kids everywhere are playing on their parents: sending them a text pretending to buy or sell drugs.
- Physicians are good people... And yet all of us, behind closed doors, in the cafeteria, say, "Do you believe what we did to that patient?"
- Resuscitation medicine practitioner says there's evidence that consciousness continues in humans for a few hours after "death."
- Tig Notaro explains to Conan O'Brien why it's so important to stay present.
