* The Indian government's new monitoring system can access all its citizens' phone calls, texts, emails, and social media exchanges. * Cholera victims in Haiti threaten to sue UN for negligence in allowing appointed peacekeepers to contaminate water supply. * Scientists invent microparticle that, when injected, can keep a person
* Wisconsin approves bill to require recipients of food stamps to spend at least two-thirds of monthly benefits on food that's not junk. * Photographs of Chinese farmers', engineers', and businessmen's do-it-yourself projects. * See also: Jack Hitt's "Amateurs' Role
* Nigerians morgues are flooded with evidence—in the form of corpses—of the military's war against Islamists. * Bristling at U.S. accusations of hacking, China claims Washington is the "real hacking empire." * To have a constructive conversation about drones, maybe don't call them "
* Critics of Keynes say because he was childless he didn't care about "the long run"—but they don't understand what he meant by "the long run." * The law student behind the world's first 3D-printable gun is a "principled&
* The black hole of North Korea intelligence gathering is getting blacker. * Related: An illustrated guide to the on-again, off-again romance between Pyongyang and the U.S. * Daniel C. Dennett tests a theory that "surely" signals a weak philosophical argument. * Long-tongued bat uses the hair on
* Investigators piece together what happened in West, Texas, where unverified amounts of volatile chemicals may have been housed. * One year after Obama affirmed his support of same-sex marriage, public opinion has followed suit. * For more than two years, a government lab has been running a quantum-sized internet. * Signs
* More than 30 years before Jason Collins, baseball's Glenn Burke was the first openly gay player in the majors. * Related: When Glenn Burke invented the high five. * Every conceivable piece of data transmitted or received by U.S. citizens is kept at the NSA's new facility
* NRA asks convention vendor to remove 3D "bleeding" target dummy resembling Obama. * Related: Shooting an Obama target is legal, just as it was legal for a Ben and Jerry's co-founder to burn a 12-foot-tall Bush effigy. * How to tell you're eating
* After six months of meetings, Halliburton and North Carolina set fracking rules. * Map shows the extent of Mexican drug cartels' reach in North America. * According to the CDC, more Americans now die of suicide than in car accidents. * Photos of children proudly displaying their "My First Rifle."
* Entire villages in Mexico's Costa Grande region have been abandoned in the cartel war. * After al-Qaida got involved around 10 years ago, we saw a massive increase in the quantities of cocaine involved. * In utero, the largest shark embryo will devour all its littermates—except its closest-
