June 5, 2013: Morning
- Facing increasing numbers of protesters arrested on "Moral Mondays," North Carolina governor calls civil disobedience "unacceptable."
- Ohio State University president retires after saying of Notre Dame, "You just can't trust those damn Catholics on a Thursday or a Friday."
- Lords offer 18 reasons why gay marriage shouldn't pass in Britain.
- Australian finance minister asked to leave parliamentary session for being too drunk to debate.
- Economist worries over how well the rest of the world is coping while 5% of its citizens (Syria) undergo "moral regression."
- There are now nearly eight thousand hedge funds, and on average they have underperformed the stock market for nine of the past ten years.
- Park rangers blame social media for rise in people vandalizing cactuses and famous rock formations.
- Bank-account draining malware—particularly a trojan horse called Zeus—thrives on Facebook.
- Fascinating profile of the computer scientist who figured out how an online security test could simultaneously translate old books.
- Related: "Made by Hand: The Bike Maker."
- Things people don't know about India.
- Australian surfer takes friend's paraplegic mother surfing by duct-taping her to his back.
- Stunning pictures of last week's wildfire started in California's Angeles National Forest, north of Los Angeles.
- Round-up of secret military badges.
- Volkswagen sponsors initiative where people are paid to drive under the speed limit.
- Driver illegally attempts to break the the Cannonball Run: Crossing America in less than 32 hours, 7 minutes.
- See also: Cameras mounted on cars for the Sport Car Club of America's annual runoffs, including winner Donald Knowles.
- Paleontologists discover that a long-ignored fossil might belong to a giant lizard that lived among mammals, and name it after Jim Morrison.