April 5, 2013: Afternoon
- Four teenagers attempt to end Georgia county's tradition of racially segregated proms.
- Ice that took 1,600 years to form in the Andes in Peru has melted in the past 25.
- Graham crackers and Corn Flakes were originally intended to curb sexual urges.
- Roger Ebert remembers his favorite bar in Chicago, drinking hole for reporters, celebrities, and other dudes.
- Ebert's Twitter feed experiences increase of followers postmortem.
- MetaFilter users list the most comforting condolences they received after losing a loved one.
- Sam Grobart reports from inside Samsung headquarters to figure out how it beat Apple—e.g., by operating out of "perpetual crisis."
- Economist analyzes predictions made back in 2005 about peak oil.
- If you think the apocalypse is coming, chances are you're just going to get laughed at by a Mayan engineer on a plane.
- Doctor who has responded to five emergencies on airplanes explains what needs to change—basically, airlines should stop depending solely on volunteer doctors.
- Former food tester for Adolf Hitler explains what it was like to taste his meals for two and a half years.
- Road-kill numbers of roadside-nesting cliff swallows have dropped as birds shorten their wings to become more agile.
- Aerial photographs of southern Poland.
- Selections from Metropolitan Museum's new exhibit of Civil War photography—"a time when photography and political history inextricably fused.”