April 4, 2013: Afternoon
- Let's say that the North decides to fire its new mobile KN-08 intermediate-range ballistic missile.
- Instead of Austin, a likelier North Korean target is nearby San Antonio, home to Air Force Cyber Command.
- The greatest deterrent to North Korea's aggression is China, whose new president could set a fresh international tone.
- Kindergarten kids asked me about North Korea. I told them they're poor people with bad teachers.
- Cancer clinics across the U.S. refuse Medicare patients, blame sequester cutbacks.
- UK cancer charities say the imminent demise of a government fund means an uncertain future for treatments.
- Drone patrols over the U.S.-Mexico border identify new security gaps.
- The Somali pirate scam Western journalists fell for, from the perspective of a Kenyan waiter/actor.
- Manchester police officially declare attacks against goths and punks as hate crimes.
- Magicians have been stealing each other's tricks for centuries—now globalization threatens their intellectual property.
- Designer creates board game to be played over the next 2,700 years.
- Related: Library turns the 2013 Tournament of Books into a board game.
- See also: Matthew Baldwin's Good Gift Games guides for TMN.
- On the 100th anniversary of Ebbets Field.
- To tap into creativity, work at off-peak times, look at the color green, and drink alcohol.
- The first in a series of interviews with collaborators on the forthcoming Daft Punk album: Giorgio Moroder.
- How far is it to Mars? Far.