August 16, 2013: Morning
- Army blocks entrances to Tahrir Square while Cairo prepares for Muslim Brotherhood's "march of anger."
- The Egyptian military did what we explicitly told them not to do. How can we still pretend that this aid is giving us influence?
- Round-up of the week in wacky right-wing statements.
- Map in which every person is represented as a colored pixel depicts racial segregation in the United States.
- Related: For those who enjoy quizzes and maps, our crowd favorite: Cloud of Atlases.
- As global demand increases for quinoa, Andean farmers worry about losing their cash crop to mass production.
- Cincinnati airline Flamingo Air only offers romantic flights: $425 for a chance to join the mile high club.
- One Billion Second Calculator: find out exactly when you were or will be one billion seconds old.
- Bronze Age gaming tokens discovered in Turkey suggest the first board games were played 5000 years ago.
- Nitpickers who get upset over "literally" usage should blame an 18th-century novelist—not Google—for "breaking the English language."
- Serial killer and accomplice used Craigslist to find their victims: white, working-class men.
- Photos show scenes from the everyday lives of Ku Klux Klan members.
- Mistaken for 100 years as a kind of raccoon, the olinguito—"a cross between a teddy bear and house cat"—is an entirely different carnivore.
- See also: The darker side of cute and cuddly animal videos.
- Celebrity elephants live a hard life in India.
- Chinese zoo swaps dog for lion, hoping visitors don't notice when the "lion" starts barking.