June 4, 2014

• The Hubble telescope has captured the most comprehensive image of the universe, and it looks like a jewel box.
• Germany remains the most positively viewed country, while Russia trails Israel, Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea in negative perceptions.
• Tiananmen Square through the years.
• Some lucky government employees in Sweden are selected to participate in a six-hour workday experiment.
• A Mexican dentist rehydrates corpses in order to identify missing persons.
• The after-rain smell, which scientists call "petrichor," comes from soil-dwelling bacteria and plant oils.
• A breakdown of how the EPA's new carbon regulations—which will cut 2030 emissions to 30% of 2005's—will affect where you live.
• Google's home of Mountain View, Calif., has some of the worst housing policies in America.
• In the past five years, the number of homeless students in Washington, DC's, public school system has increased 60%.
• The most expensive school in each state.
• When Chicago's major sports teams are on TV, crime in the city plummets.
• The chemist who introduced the world to MDMA dies at 88.
• Maureen Dowd tries edibles.
• When you look at health trends over the long term, the only certainty is their inevitable reversal.
• More than 50% of American pets are obese.
• Staring at computers hurts sleep, which makes you gain weight—ergo, unplug and be healthier.
• A writer has more than double an accountant's risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but the act of writing is therapeutic.
• How not to review women's writing.
• North Korea's former poet laureate: "Before coming across Byron, I thought 'dear' was a name for Kim Jong Il."