April 30, 2014
- Nigeria's 200+ kidnapped girls said to have been sold as brides to Boko Haram militants.
- Untested drug cocktail leads to botched execution in Oklahoma, killing inmate 43 minutes later from a heart attack.
- With NBA owners now on the hook for Sterling's future, other owners' bad behavior comes to light.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar upset about Sterling, but also the secret taping of comments, and America's massive blind spot for racism.
- Primer on how Civil Rights was passed through America's political machine.
- New advertisement for Dove—in which women are portrayed as vain morons—is latest to patronize and manipulate customers.
- Women suffering complications from unsafe abortions occupy 30-40% of Kenya's hospital beds.
- Woman listens to her husband's stupid record collection and relates her thoughts, one record at a time.
- Report from a Pennsylvania retirement home's aqua pole-dancing class.
- Spring Breakers' Harmony Korine to show his "mistakism" paintings at the Gagosian Gallery.
- Artist uses power tools to "hand-drill" portraits of people killed in Mexico's drug wars.
- Time-lapse footage of the world's craziest traffic intersection: Meskel Square, Ethiopia.
- Self-driving Google cars now read stop signs, including those held by crossing guards, but wait too long at four-way intersections.
- Amtrak testing new program to allow passengers to bring their pets aboard.
- Writer relates the small and big changes in life that occur after you report your father for sexual abuse.
- Gossip app Yik Yak brings daily life at a Connecticut high school to a screeching halt.
- Primer if you don't have the time or will to read Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century but want to sound like you do.
- Woman responds to a note for help found inside a Saks bag, from the man who made the bag back in China.
- History of confetti.