June 3, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- The number of women senators has grown by 65% in the past decade, as has their influence—seven years ago, military sexual assault was ignored.
- In Sweden, where college is free but little else is, students still rack up debt.
- In World War II, German soldiers relied on meth to stay alert in combat.
- When reporters cover unrest, sometimes they unwittingly—or intentionally—mythologize the truth.
- Thinking the demonstration was winding down, I went back home and tried to work on my novel. The demonstration wasn’t winding down.
- In this week's gallery, documenting a season with the Durham Bulls, the AAA baseball team that inspired Bull Durham.
- A new book looks at how to predict controversial Wikipedia articles.
- Prominent atheist wants to see atheism tracts next to bibles in hotel rooms.
- Citing profit over comfort, New York's Hilton Midtown to discontinue room service.
- Sampling exotic chili peppers is the foodie's rendition of jumping out of an airplane.
- As food becomes more manufactured and marketed, we need new words to describe it.
- If we told European history like Native American history.
- When good baby names go bad—i.e., when they appear in the Pottery Barn catalog.
- Australia's crocodile population is back to pre-1971 levels, when hunting the species was banned.
- Related: Erik Bryan defends Tallahassee, where he grew up among the gators.
- By working out the average effect of, say, smoking or eating red meat, we can figure out a cost in microlives for different habits.
- Blog post ideas, free for the taking.
