June 12, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- White House drops legal battle to keep age restrictions on the Plan B One-Step morning-after pill.
- Ai Weiwei: NSA surveillance makes the U.S. resemble China, where a lack of privacy stifles creativity and individualism.
- Nicaragua moves forward on a vague but seemingly decisive plan to build a canal holding twice the capacity of Panama's.
- After falling asleep at his keyboard, a banker accidentally transferred $293 million.
- A study finds no difference in reading comprehension between Kindle and print.
- High schoolers are reading books for fun, but most are reading novels far below their grade levels.
- Paul Ford: Facebook's smartphone interface isn't for you, it's for Facebook.
- Why we sign our emails with "thank you."
- See also: How you begin an email signals your intentions.
- The type of jokes aimed at dads would be banned if they were aimed at women, ethnic minorities, or religious groups.
- Photographer documents mentally ill inmates in a Kentucky prison that, like most other prisons, lacks the funding to properly accomodate them.
- A history of wetsuits.
- John F. Kennedy's recipe for fish chowder sounds delicious.
- With a £2 million price tag, a fireplace, and a roof terrace, the world's most expensive motorhome goes on sale in Dubai.
- Wanting expensive things makes us happier than buying them.
- A tweeting diaper is just the beginning; soon, your light bulbs will narrate their agonizing deaths.
