June 3, 2014

• Seven weeks after the kidnapping, Nigerian police ban peaceful "Bring Back Our Girls" protests in the capital.
• Astronomers discover two new exoplanets,​ ​raising new hopes in the search for extraterrestrial life.
• Obama's decision to exchange five Guantànamo prisoners for Bowe Bergdahl marks slight progress in his pledge to close Gitmo.
• Bergdahl was a deserter, and soldiers from his own unit died trying to track him down.
• PTSD may soon become a thing of the past:​ ​Scientists ​successfully remove​ ​fear memories in ​rats.
• New studies on human memory find our brains choose to forget should we need them to become more efficient.
• In the US, 30% of employees feel engaged at work; worldwide it's 13%.
• Seattle votes to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour, the highest in America.
• Supreme Court rejects expansion of Chemical Weapons Convention into minor domestic crimes.
• [Our] model suggests that changing a severe hurricane's name from Charley to Eloise could nearly triple its death toll.
• Newly discovered pictures taken one day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
• Mentally disabled parents often have their children removed by the state for no reason beyond their illness.
• Microsoft's 1999 concept on homes of the future includes a trashcan that adds discarded items to your shopping list.
• Google’s self-driving car has no steering wheel or overrides—passengers' trust renders them useless in an emergency.
• See also: Soon your nail clippers will be online and scheduling podiatrist appointments for your fungal infection.
• The leader of Thailand's coup is forcing all TV and radio to broadcast his weekly show, Returning Happiness to the People.
• The occupational hazards of being a frontman.
• An analysis of tennis players' age and championships shows Nadal is now too old to surpass Federer's titles.