July 17, 2013: Morning
- New video finds Pussy Riot claiming Putin and cronies have looted billions of dollars of Russia's oil wealth.
- Cuba admits being behind a stash of weapons found on board a North Korean ship seized in the Panama Canal.
- Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, in response to Zimmerman's acquittal, says being big and black requires being dead inside.
- "Signal Detection Theory" explains why phantom phone vibrations are an unavoidable part of a healthy mind.
- Geneticists implore engineers to work on something important.
- New definitive account of the Pioneer Anomaly—why the first man-made object to journey through the asteroid belt for Jupiter went so far astray.
- Overview of the Times's coverage of chopped salads since 1998.
- In 90 years, Africa's population is expected to quadruple; what that means for the global economy in nine interactive graphs.
- Teju Cole returns home to Lagos and gets robbed at gunpoint.
- Round-up of various political euphemisms for infidelity.
- In India, 19 children dead and 28 critically ill from eating unsanitary subsidized lunches.
- Ralph Nader calls for ballparks to quit building all-you-can-eat sections.
- Executives at ABC should be ashamed for offering McCarthy a regular platform on which she can peddle denialism and fear.
- Related: Remembering the day a View co-host admitted she didn't know if the world was round or flat.
- Andrew Dice Clay says he initially thought Woody Allen's interest in casting him for a movie was an April Fool's joke.
- Analysis of email sign-offs.
- See also: Measuring intentions based on how an email starts.