December 6, 2013
By The Morning News
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- Nelson Mandela, dead at 95 from a lung infection, "was, quite simply, a wonderful man."
- Zakes Mda: Mandela was a man of contradictions, and his followers are trampling on his legacy.
- Past and present Africa correspondents from the New York Times reflect on Mandela.
- Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge heard the news of Mandela's death while watching a premiere of a movie memorializing his life.
- When two black holes collide, the results are ribbon-like formations that ripple space and time.
- From April: Liev Schreiber reads "The Distance of the Moon" by Italo Calvino.
- Eleven languages spoken by 11 people or fewer.
- In 1980, there were 1,500 to 2,000 elephants in Vietnam; today they may number as few as 70.
- After six years of development, the U.S. Navy can now launch drones from submerged submarines.
- America's 25 most dangerous neighborhoods are largely located in the Midwest.
- Thieves in Mexico open a stolen box of radioactive material and may die as a result from exposure.
- Students tweet remembrances of an American teacher killed in Benghazi, gunned down while jogging.
- Second-grader invents "buddy bench," where lonely children can sit and attract new friends during recess.
- Saudi Arabia repatriated over 100,000 Ethiopians in the last month, with 50,000 more expecting to return to Africa.
- Round-up of various lists featuring the "best photographs of 2013."
- Seattle's board-game expert Matthew Baldwin picks the best board games of 2013 to give as gifts.
- See also: Archive of Baldwin's annual game recommendations, dating all the way back to 2004.
- The internet has run out of four-letter dot-com domain names—all 456,976 of them.
- Sex burns as many calories as doubles tennis or uphill walking: four calories per minute for men and three per minute for women.
