June 4, 2013: Afternoon
- If we stopped chopping down so many trees, we'd put a dent in one of our largest sources of greenhouse gases.
- Supreme Court complicates Fourth Amendment rights by ruling police can collect DNA from individuals without convictions.
- In search of "sacred music," John Davidson retraces his grandparents' trek to Morocco.
- How civilians in Timbuktu saved culturally rich manuscripts from being burned by its radical government.
- Adam Johnson interviews Kim Jong-il's personal chef and confidante.
- Tracking the increased use of natural food coloring over the past five years.
- On every banana it exports, Ecuador will include a sticker with a QR code that leads to tourism videos.
- Reddit asks: "What technology exists that most people probably don't know about and would totally blow their minds?"
- In barely one generation we’ve moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them.
- FDA attempts to regulate the exploding number of mobile health apps.
- See also: Non-Expert Andrew Womack answers a reader's plea: "Am I a hypochondriac?"
- When seeking a raise at work, avoid asking for too many zeroes.
- Ball-tracking cameras don't work on clay tennis courts, where the lines aren't straight and the mark never lies.
- More than any other sport, cycling accounts for the most head injuries every year.
- Boomers want custom coffins.
- Longform's guide to cocaine.