April 7, 2014

• Analysis of India's demographics, as the country prepares to vote, finds more than half the population under 24.
• Amtrak's rules in big cities are bizarre, ignoring 150 years of accumulated wisdom about boarding trains; they are also easily avoidable.
• The longer we wait to impose a carbon tax, the sooner we'll see even worse climate predictions borne out.
• Scientists say it would take many more humans than previously thought to colonize another star system.
• Member of Polish Parliament lives as a “migrant” in London on £100 a week to see why so many Poles emigrate to the UK.
• Tragedy of the Central African Republic's year of inter-ethnic violence found in its clusters of mango trees.
• A platform secretly run by the US government could not become a major social network in Cuba without being exposed at some point.
• Ties found between Turkey’s Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and an influential “Islamic sex cult.”
• Unrelated: Paintings of exploding homes.
• Highly effective handheld treatment for drug overdoses approved; doctors fear it may lead to more partying.
• One in three facial plastic surgeons surveyed saw an increase in requests for procedures due to patients being more self-aware of looks in social media.
• The Library of Alexandria is now digitized.
• New technology aims to embed sensors into your clothes to track vital signs and provide constant doctoring.
• Mickey Rooney dies at 93—from top star at 19 to bankrupt has-been in his 40s, to making movies as recently as this year.
• Two-time National Book Award winner, zen priest, former spook, and Paris Review founder Peter Matthiessen died on Saturday.
• Guide helps men select which Japanese men's fashion magazine is tailored to their interests.
• Round-up of top insults and trash-talk from professional tennis.