June 5, 2013: Afternoon
- Michelle Obama—unlike her husband—doesn't suffer hecklers kindly.
- Social media is essential to contemporary civil unrest—in Turkey, Vine is the medium of choice.
- According to a new poll, most black Americans feel that, over the past decade, their lives have improved.
- Only two million of the estimated 10 to 12 million living species have been identified.
- Ninth-graders pique scientific community's interest with experiment that demonstrates how plants won't grow near a WiFi router.
- Because it can't be about making money: Why Amazon wants to sell you groceries.
- What you don't know about how your food is made can hurt you, or at least make you uncomfortable.
- Why we should pay attention to Iran's election.
- Since the introduction of the Finnish baby-starter box 75 years ago, infant mortality rates have plummeted.
- Coming soon: lullaby renditions of Jay-Z tracks.
- New from the Dollar Shave Club: butt wipes for men.
- If they see someone touch the left side of their face they'll feel it on the left side of their own face.
- New in our "Love Your Dress" column on costume dramas: How Jil Sander and Fendi define I Am Love.
- Ben Ehrenreich searches for the abolitionist buried in the LA hills.
- The 1936 article by James Agee that spawned his Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was finally published this week.
- In case you missed it: The front page of The Morning News has a new look—read all about it.