July 8, 2013: Afternoon
- For schools that choose to arm their employees, insurance carriers are raising premiums or refusing to provide coverage.
- From 2011 to four days ago, a timeline of Egypt's transition from Mubarak to Morsi.
- There is a war on Wikipedia over naming Egypt's "coup," since it's hardly a traditional seizure.
- Boko Harem massacres 22 students as part of an ongoing protest against Western education; schools in Nigeria's Yobe district ordered shut.
- Fatal Quebec train explosion had no conductor aboard when it derailed.
- California prison doctors found to have illegally sterilized approximately 248 female inmates since the late 1990s.
- Scientists introduce pavement that can consume air pollution from auto emissions.
- In Japan, up to a million young people have withdrawn from society, refusing to leave their homes for years.
- Anonymous Japanese Twitterbot posts only images of burnt food.
- See also: "The Internet of Actual Things" by Giles Turnbull.
- When the staff of the New Yorker mutinied over the announcement of a new editor.
- Gripping my telescope tripod in both hands, I held it in front of me to form a barrier as the bear cannoned into me.
- The joy of old age.
- As Evan Osnos prepares to depart China, yet another character introduces himself on the street.
- The sounds of slot machines are designed to make us think we won, even when we didn't.
- "The" has long been the ugly stepchild of the articles-and-prepositions family; it might always be.