April 28, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Japan's government pressures those evacuated in the 2010 nuclear meltdown to return home, where radiation is triple pre-accident levels.
- Despite support from dozens of health groups, efforts to kill bacteria with radiation slow to catch on in the US.
- Stop lying to yourselves, and to your children. Stop pretending that the crisis can be "solved," that the planet can be "saved."
- Stunning, ultra-high-definition video of the stars in rural Nevada.
- This weekend construction workers dug up the legendary stockpile of Atari games buried in the New Mexico desert.
- Sarah Palin promises that, were she president, terrorists would be baptized via waterboarding.
- Six-day walking races—exercises in endurance and sleep deprivation—were once the most popular spectator sport in America.
- Oprah Winfrey, Sheryl Sandberg, and JK Rowling: Firstborn girls are 13% more ambitious than firstborn boys.
- Compared to 1997 admission rates, American students are 27% less likely to get into Harvard, but 23% more likely to get into the University of Chicago.
- Program places needy veterans in foster homes, where private citizens care for them.
- Family sets up a video camera to catch a woman stealing toys from their child's gravesite.
- The possibility lingers that social media may also influence and mediate the nature of grief itself.
- A Facebook-funded police station opens in Silicon Valley.
- "Food gentrification" is a false phenomenon; more demand for certain foods equals more production, not higher prices.
- "Someone Ate This," a curated space for the web's worst food photography.
- How to improve your vision without glasses.
