June 20, 2012: Morning
- In Pakistan, preference for boy babies has led to an alarmingly skewed gender ratio at birth and orphanages filled with girls.
- Interactive timeline tracks Obama administration's drone death tolls, finds the claims don't add up.
- Unlike previous fad intoxicants, the hysteria about bath salts seems well earned.
- As the art market becomes big business, art experts fearing lawsuits recuse themselves from offering scholarly opinions.
- Some local candidates in Texas agree to decide close elections with coin flips.
- Sale of dinosaur skeleton for $1 million halted after museum paleontology head raises suspicions of its origins.
- Richard Dawkins explains why there was no first human being.
- Finding a cool document in an archive exactly where it's supposed to be is not a "discovery."
- Physicists analyze new data to assess whether they may be on the right track to finding the Higgs boson, lost for 40 years.
- Related: "In the Event That You Have Accidentally Swallowed the Higgs Boson."
- Spanish scientists say time is decelerating and will stop completely, sometime.
- June 30 in New York: Catch TMN's Pitchaya Sudbanthad host the Barbès Reading Series, featuring Jeffrey Rotter, John Wray, more.