April 9, 2013: Morning
- Obama pleads with Congress to vote on gun control, criticizing Republicans who have threatened to filibuster.
- Republican senators' staffers complain of new gun groups' harassment campaigns.
- Britain debates whether it's OK to celebrate Thatcher's death, as many have done with champagne and public partying.
- Morrissey: "Thatcher was a terror without an atom of humanity."
- About a dozen states have proposed or enacted bills that would make it illegal to covertly videotape animal abuse on livestock farms.
- Scientific world is exploding with fake or shoddy academic journals and conferences.
- Remove all the space within the atoms making up the human body, and every person that’s ever lived would fit inside a baseball.
- NPR celebrates the Wu-Tang Clan's business plan's 20th anniversary.
- Tens of thousands listen to a weekly summary of world events broadcast by Finnish state radio in classical Latin.
- Reel of dumb moments from March Madness that didn't make it into CBS's inspirational montage when Louisville won last night.
- Lionel Messi takes shots against a robotic goalkeeper.
- Wagner was a giant fan of Schopenhauer, who mocked his music; Schopenhauer was a giant fan of Rossini, but couldn't say hello in a restaurant.
- Austin photographer adds art and humor to his wedding photographs.
- Early 20th century pictures of American Indians by Edward S. Curtis praised for breadth of coverage, criticized for "native savage" portraits.
- Six great long articles about manhunts.
- The real reason tech types don’t buy art: they’re too busy investing in each other’s startups instead.
- Round-up of examples of street art from the Arab world found on YouTube.