April 4, 2013: Morning
- When the presidency was "an unbroken string of white men," the GOP didn't bother asking Baltimore's Dr. Carson to wear a mask.
- Thirty-six recent images of people wearing masks.
- Hopi Indians of Arizona ask federal officials to stop a high-price Paris auction of 70 sacred masks; unfortunately, Washington has no agreements governing U.S. artifacts abroad.
- Mother copes with daughter's albinism by finding comfort in stories and lore.
- In a "rhopalic" sentence, each word contains one letter or one syllable more than the previous word.
- Nussbaum: Take The Killing, add dramatic heft, Jane Campion, and New Zealand settings, and you get Top of the Lake.
- Survey of a dozen seminal cellphones.
- Being a great photographer does not negate being a master of "creepshots."
- See also: Pictures of people levitating in French supermarkets.
- Celiac nomad who's been traveling the world for five years explains how everything has led to eating soup all day long.
- Highlights from a blog of four men currently rowing from Senegal to Florida.
- Samoa Air charges passengers different fees based on how much mass they bring on the plane.
- Travelers' bags unpacked, with contents laid out in grid formations, for luggage voyeurs.
- TED endorses 100 websites to know and use.