June 12, 2013: Morning
- Reuters poll finds most respondents are OK with the NSA's domestic spying tactics.
- Friedersdorf: History shows that if we stop opposing a surveillance state, we'll live in one.
- How Google uses secure FTP to provide user information—indirectly—to PRISM.
- A web dump of everything about the NSA leaker.
- The...enduring feature of both post-9/11 presidents has been their shared contention that their core objective…is to protect U.S. citizens.
- Tumblr of the Day: "Obama Is Checking Your Email."
- National Geographic profiles the 21st century's most daring explorers.
- Astronomers now say you couldn't move to Alpha Centauri B—though it's a lifespan away in space travel—because it's not there.
- Why you can only afford to reproduce once: It costs an average of $234,900 to raise one child to age 18.
- Let's abolish wedding presents.
- See also: Our four-part guide to getting married.
- For 35 years, a couple has been wearing matching outfits.
- Some Former Zuccotti Park protestors take OWS afield, join movements in Istanbul and further abroad.
- An interactive story by Kevin Fanning.
- Researchers say just five percent of people wash their hands properly.