* If we take the future at all seriously...then we need to leave a big percentage of the planet's coal and oil and natural gas in the ground. * Working-class white citizens in South Africa face levels of deprivation as bad as black South Africans faced under apartheid.
* After Tennessee Rep. Debra Maggart, a lifelong NRA member, voted against a pro-gun bill, her onetime allies destroyed her. * Vertical timeline of congressional leanings on gun control. * If you have a famous ancestor far enough back that finding out about them is a surprise, you share them with a
* According to the Congressional Budget Office, the deficit crisis is solved for the next decade, and sequestration is dumb. * If you can't get a cast like that together, you can forget changing anything in a great big way. * Boston Marathon runners—two wheelchair-bound—return to cross the
* Russia ships sophisticated anti-ship missiles to Syria, fulfilling order placed in 2007. * Putin installs helipad at the Kremlin to appease Muscovites' fury over politicians skirting traffic laws. * Business booming in “Gun Valley,” aka "the swath of Western Massachusetts and Connecticut where industrial gun making in America began.
* The New Orleans Mother's Day shooting should be a "national tragedy," except it isn't. * Activist protests Abercrombie CEO's opinion that his brand is not for "unattractive people" by donating its merchandise to the homeless. * Chuck Hagel orders retraining of military
* Dept. of Homeland Security seizes funds from the largest Bitcoin exchange. * Aaron Swartz was not yet a legend when, almost two years ago, I asked him to build an open-source, anonymous in-box. * Pneumatic tubes, and other reasons libraries will fail—from 1864. * The Kepler space telescope's
* Scientists announce $1 vaccine for rotavirus infections—which kill half a million children worldwide every year. * Politicians endlessly debate debts and deficits with little regard for the human costs of their decisions. * Reacting to Time's cover story, discerning whether it's even possible to measure narcissism. * Why
* Massacres and grisly killings in Syria, filmed for the world to see, show gap between diplomacy efforts and events on the ground. * Kofi Annan's "Africa Progress Report" says resource-rich countries must work together to make tax avoidance harder. * Ghyslain Raza, formerly known as "Star
* I'd been struggling with whether to do it for nearly two years, ever since I learned I carry the BRCA1 genetic mutation. * In light of Gov. Christie's recent gastric bypass, recalling Taft's weight-loss regimen. * Over a two-and-a-half-year period, device
* As the Bering Sea makes its way further inland, residents of Newtok, Alaska, could become America's first climate refugees. * Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family—that's impossible. * Why did Jodon Romero kill himself on
