February 27, 2013: Afternoon
- Coastal Carolina University is on lockdown after a student was shot and killed this morning.
- A harrowing, interactive chart of the more than 2,300 people who have been killed by guns in America since Newtown.
- Kerry defends free speech to German press: "In America, you have a right to be stupid."
- Two filmmakers document the lives of New York's "canners," the people who collect bottles and cans for their redemption value.
- German politicians quarrel over whether to distribute recalled horsemeat to the poor.
- Related: The etymology of the phrase "I could eat a horse."
- Scientists believe our mouths are more bacteria-laden than those of our cave-dwelling ancestors.
- Astronomer who discovered new moons around Pluto is skeptical of names suggested by Shatner, Trekkies.
- Language center in Paris to offer a special course in Martian.
- Download your brackets for the 2013 Tournament of Books.
- How breakfast reveals who literary characters really are.
- Four decades after a seven-year-old was hit by a car and died, his classmate searches for answers.
- Why Google Glass won't become a phone: Doing so may prove cell phones cause cancer.
- Bloggers test the durability of Caterpillar's new phone by throwing it onto a concrete road.
- The future of car insurance: Devices in cars that track and report on driving habits.
- Here's a kid walking almost 10 miles in the ice and slush and snow for the hope of a job at minimum wage.
- Poem for today: "If a Clown" by Stephen Dunn.