March 13, 2015
- Giuliani says Obama is to blame for the latest shootings in Ferguson, calls Brown's death “a justifiable homicide."
- Protests in Ferguson—or fear thereof—drove huge spike in Missouri gun sales.
- NASA launches four spacecraft to study the give-and-take of the Earth and sun's magnetic fields.
- Readers share stories of birds who do them favors.
- America's political forefathers wouldn't be surprised to hear of individuals negotiating directly with foreign governments.
- What you’re feeling now is Early Onset Clinton Fatigue... and the only known cure is Elizabeth Warren.
- Driven by cost considerations, more Americans this year will be cremated than buried.
- Story of a bungled police investigation that sent a woman to prison with little more evidence than a nasty rumor.
- Senator says the Obama administration is still spying on us in many ways we don't know about.
- Considering that modern programming is done in American English: a mock-up of what Arabic code would even look like.
- I have friends who have admitted to feeling as though they have entirely different personalities on Facebook and in real life.
- Social media provokes renaissance of public shaming, indulging old uglinesses.
- Wrapping up the first week in the 2015 Tournament of Books, Victor LaValle judges Annihilation v. Dept. of Speculation.
- Tour of Disney World's massive "Internet of Things" renovation.
- Related: In the internet of things, the knives will collude with the cutting board.
- Wet wipes bedevil New York's sewers; in London, a 2013 wipe-mass known as "the fatberg" totaled 15 tons.
- "How to Turn a Malignant Tumor Into a Digital Self-Publishing Project."
- Legendary fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett dies with early-onset Alzheimer's.