* 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-
* Economist decides Tennessee's Knoxville is America's most perfectly average place. * Fact-checking Obama's claim that 85-90 percent of Americans won't notice anything but better health care due to the Affordable Care Act. * Five conspiracy theories actually believed by Texas senator Ted
* American citizen sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in North Korea—possibly to entice an American president to come free him. * Roots of Buddhists killing Muslims in Burma and Sri Lanka traced back to "a Faustian pact with state power." * Chart weaves together economic growth in Africa
* Theories abound over why North Korea has gone quiet, though many point to China and John Kerry. * Chilly Gonzales discusses his experience of recording music with Daft Punk. * Computer historian names his holy grail: “the CompuServe backup tapes.” * British pharmacy quits labeling science toys as suitable for boys, not girls,
* Forty-two percent of Americans aren't sure if Obama's health care reform is still law. * Boston Marathon victims who lost limbs will be provided with (mostly) free prosthetics. * In light of the Boston Marathon bombers, prison interview with the Unabomber, whose younger brother/former acolyte put
* Obama says Guantanamo Bay needs to be closed, orders review of operations, plans to "renew discussions with lawmakers" who want it open. * Boy Scouts leadership recommends banning gay leaders, but not gay scouts. * At the Nakizumo crying-baby festival in Tokyo, parents hand their babies over to sumo
New Yorkers don’t fade away—they just move. But to where? From Miami to Austin to Berlin, detailed maps of nearly every other significant city’s neighborhoods show ex-pats exactly where to emigrate.
