June 7, 2012: Morning
- Nasdaq pledges $40 million to settle broker disputes in Facebook IPO.
- Silicon Valley's next hot tech IPO.
- Imagining life after a "total hack," where everything you've clicked can be seen by everyone else.
- Chinese students stress over gao kao, notoriously difficult college entrance exams that can last three days.
- We really believed we would have flying cars and colonies on Mars by now. How did we get the future so wrong?
- The latest from Ray Bradbury, who died on Tuesday, in this week's New Yorker: "Take Me Home."
- You can imagine how exciting it was to do a book about book burning in the very presence of the hundreds of my beloveds on the shelves.
- Two hundred years of surgery.
- Because it's sold in a convenience store, 7-11's Big Gulp calorie bomb escapes Bloomberg's big soda ban.
- Brazil lifts restriction on alcohol sales at soccer matches during the 2014 World Cup.
- Warning issued to players ahead of Euro 2012: Leaving the field due to racist incidents is an infraction.
- Justin Timberlake talks immortality, Botox, and his non-existent quarter-life crisis.
- With Andy Samberg's departure from SNL, a look back at the best Digital Shorts.
- In case you missed Tuesday's transit of Venus, a gallery of stunning images.