Headlines from May 24, 2013

NOAA predicts active hurricane season, with up to double the typical number of major storms.
Praise, disappointment over Boy Scouts’ decision to admit openly gay Scouts.
Overexposure to fluoride carries health risks—but not due to it being an unnatural industrial chemical.
We’ve become our own greatest danger. Suicide rates are rising, but there is hope we can reverse it. #longreads
Former Syrian National Coalition president presents plan for political transition that would leave Assad supporters without legal protection.
EU ignores austerity for now, approves ban on restaurants serving olive oil in dipping bowls.
A student’s educational saga is now culminating in a nationwide boycott of standardized testing.
You were in a state of relaxed presence as you explored your world. On the misperception of attention spans.
From 1939 to 1945, Finland fought in three conflicts: against the Soviets; with the Germains against the Soviets; and against the Germans. #photos
Former French president says he was attacked by a panda while in office.
How the lone dancing guy is a lesson in leadership. #video
I was an oddity as a girl who learned to read. Q&A with “Boge” Gebre, activist against female genital mutilation in Ethiopia.
A tour of the last unopened stretch of New York’s High Line. #photos
Park Slope Family Circus. #comics
George Washington did not have wooden teeth. List of common misconceptions.
A picture of a monkey riding a goat.
There is no light at the end of the tunnel for drone strikes…and other counterterrorism operations after 12 years of a global war.
Anti-Islam backlash grows in Britain after Woolwich machete attack.
UCLA surgeons broadcast brain surgery over social media.
Doctors use 3D printing to create a new airway for a baby who had lost the ability to breathe on its own.
This week a girl whose parents conceived her in hopes she could be a bone-marrow donor for her sister graduated from college.
There is not the faintest reason for peppering pages with these uncouth bacilli. Apostrophes may be a moribund piece of grammar.
Almanac from 1982 predicted a pound of beef would be $22.50 in 2010—and a gallon of gas would be $2.
Greek yogurt’s sharp rise in popularity has resulted in an overabundance of whey—no one is entirely sure what to do with it.
The level of hunger in the United States is closer to Indonesia or Greece than it is to Britain or Canada.
Osaka barista explores the craft of 3D latte art. #photos
How toothpaste makes orange juice taste bad. #video
You don’t actually need a still to call yourself a distiller. Why your “local” “craft” liquor is neither.
NJ officials raid bars refilling premium liquor bottles with hooch—one mixed rubbing alcohol with caramel coloring and sold it as scotch.
The concept of a flamethrowing tank in the 1930s was meant to be so horrifying as to turn people against war.
In the summer of 1944, a handpicked group of G.I.s landed in France with truckloads of inflatable tanks. #video
How Lego built a 46,000-pound X-Wing from approximately 5.3 million bricks.
Related: “A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families.” #tmn