March 19, 2013: Afternoon
- Does it destroy a teenager’s life to take him off the path of being an adult rapist?
- Excerpts from the RNC's surprisingly frank election postmortem.
- International sanctions are leaving Iran's hospitals without supplies—surgeons are resorting to "old drugs."
- FBI says it knows who perpetrated a $500 million art heist in Boston 23 years ago.
- Earthquakes can turn water into gold in seconds, but that gold can only be mineable in thousands of years.
- As insurance and financial corporations brace for climate change, natural-disaster experts are in high demand.
- Related: Experts weigh in on how the world could end, and how we might be able to stop it.
- Scientists are—successfully—trying to revive an extinct species of native frog that gives birth through its mouth.
- As a result of its see-through yoga pants recall, Lululemon has lost almost $12 million.
- Our ears are able to turn the vibrations into a car alarm or a cat’s meow or, worse, the voice of Mariah Carey.
- Gamblers' decisions have evolutionary and neurobiological factors, which could render treatment ineffective.
- Google Analytics data indicates authorities have blocked Al Jazeera websites in Ethiopia, exacerbating media censorship suspicions.
- What it's like to try and vote as a legal immigrant.
- Side Effects and Silver Linings Playbook are built on the same template, a move Hollywood has employed more than once.
- Related: A panel of critics addresses the cultural divide brought into focus by Silver Linings Playbook.
- An excerpt from writing sensation Mary MacLane's 1902 memoir.