June 7, 2013: Morning
- NYT on Obama's terrorism justification: "The administration has now lost all credibility on this issue."
- This is the second story in the past twenty-four hours with deeply troubling constitutional and privacy implications.
- What's PalTalk? Since at least 2009, it's been the video-chatting service of choice for terrorist recruitment.
- Six months ago, an NSA whistleblower said the government has access to the email of everyone in the U.S.
- From 2007: "The NSA built a special room in San Francisco to receive data streamed through an AT&T Internet room."
- ProPublica's reading guide to the best stories on the U.S. government's growing surveillance.
- See also: "Re: Cephalopod" by Matthew Baldwin.
- Google files patent for a more secure system than typing a password—sticking out your tongue in a sequence of goofy faces.
- Sean Parker responds to wedding criticism, says no "ruined castles" were constructed for the event.
- Artists create personalized knitted garments that represent the wearer's cognitive state while listening to Bach.
- Bioengineering professor proposes a way to make wood edible.
- The questionable science around the student experiment that showed a plant didn't grow near a WiFi router.
- Researchers perform CT scans and X-rays on a 3,000-year-old mummy.
- Hyderabad doctors notice burqa-clad women are more prone to vitamin D deficiency, which can cause osteoporosis and dementia.
- Americans pay more for colonoscopies than people in other developed countries pay for childbirth or appendectomies.
- Project Wordsworth was conceived by 17 Columbia Journalism students as an experiment to find out what their longform stories were worth.