April 29, 2014
- The great majority of innocent defendants convicted of capital murder in the US are neither executed nor exonerated.
- Cities in Arkansas and Kansas, caught in the tornadoes' paths.
- America's nuclear missile silos still use eight-inch floppy disks—outdated technology that's offline and unhackable.
- The hackers who recovered NASA's lost lunar photos.
- A look inside Brother Island, an abandoned corner of New York City.
- An analysis of the zip codes politicians hit up for donations, and which ones they ignore.
- College professors spend most of their time in meetings and responding to emails.
- Adjuncts now make up 76.4% of US faculty, and most live below the poverty line.
- Columbia University's The Spectator becomes the first major Ivy League newspaper to stop daily printing.
- How "highly displayable coffee-table books about the display of books" signal the death of the book.
- Rushdie and friends remember The Satanic Verses fatwa, 25 years ago.
- All Dead Girl Shows begin with the discovery of the murdered body of a young woman.
- British musicians protest ban on guitars in prisons.
- A history of Auto-Tune.
- Flatulence linked to a slimmer waistline, better immune system—thank you, gut bacteria.
- Indian fruit markets and transport traffic hit peak chaos after EU bans their mangos.
- The last video store in DC closes.