June 17, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- China calls speculation that Snowden spied for Beijing "completely groundless."
- Russia says it won't allow no-fly zones over Syria, calls such sanctions a disrespect of international law.
- The U.S. puts more children and teens in detention than any other developed nation—research shows it's a bad idea.
- Gov. McDonnell and his family billed Virginia for their toiletries, dog vitamins, and a digestive system "detox cleanse."
- Scientists now believe meteorite fragments less than a millimeter wide flattened and burned 1,000 square miles of Siberian forest in 1908.
- The myth of dolphin rape.
- What your produce section will look like if bees go extinct.
- Providing WiFi via high-pressure balloons, Google could deliver "vital news, health information, and grumpy cats" to billions.
- Finnegan's Wake reaches China in Chinese, 73 years after original publication.
- How fonts influence textual interpretation.
- Famous writers' typewriters.
- The McDowell's in Coming to America was a Wendy's in Elmhurst, Queens, and will soon be razed.
- A timeline of U.S. airline hijackings in 1972, which capped a five-year hijacking epidemic.
- Pilot Karim Nafatni's stunning HDR photos from the insides of cockpits.
- GPS-tracked cats reveal what our feline companions do when we're not around.
- A mix of Prince's early funk demos.
