Headlines from April 2, 2013

Women who stood shoulder to shoulder with men during the 2011 Tahrir Square protests…found their position in society undermined almost immediately.
Browse the components of the federal budget since 1965. #charts
One of the largest farms in the U.S. converts livestock manure into natural gas to power its facilities and delivery trucks.
An unseen contributor to climate change: the patchwork of pipes under Manhattan spewing elevated methane levels.
The good news about North Korea restarting its nuclear plant: It’s proof they can only enrich plutonium, not uranium.
To glean the truth about North Korea, a series of novels may contain more fact than fiction.
What she has given / them is institutional / hagiography. Haikus located in New York Times articles.
Collected: the 2013 National Magazine Awards finalists.
The latest advance in invisibility cloaks still leaves an object visible, but not to microwaves.
Articles that seem like April Fools’ jokes but aren’t.
You really do worry for the future of humanity. David Pogue collects the web’s best April Fools pranks.
Calls to Applebee’s during the NCAA tourney to find out what happened during the game. #audio
It was hard for me to find clothes, since I was so tall. The NBA’s most stylish players.
Chinese court sends four men to prison for exhuming and selling corpses for traditional “ghost marriages.”
China’s mysterious duck, pig, and human deaths could point to a new pandemic on the horizon.
Sanitation workers, it turns out, have twice the fatality rates of police offers, and nearly seven times the fatality rates of firefighters.
The way the world saw and treated me changed so rapidly. A trans writer reports from both sides of the male gaze.
Related: Charlie White’s “Teen and Transgender Comparative Study.” #tmn
How “Harlem Shake” went viral: It wasn’t the users, it was the corporations. #video
Even Sony makes far more money today out of selling life insurance than it does out of making electronics.
By 3D printing skeletons, students can have better access to study materials—and dorm décor.
I feel so good after coming out of the coffin. Chinese college student prepares and participates in her own funeral.
Over time, the obituary-writing formula has changed from chronicling the ordinary to celebrating the extraordinary.
Pattycake, the first gorilla born in New York City, died at the Bronx Zoo on Sunday. #photos
NYPD says “brazen daylight kidnapping” of a young couple in Washington Heights was part of a birthday joke.
Related: From 2003, the New York artist who turn kidnapping into a designer adventure. #tmn
Movies that were shot in chronological order—and why.
A look ahead at the baseball season that could be: “Our Future National Pastime.” #tmn