March 7, 2014

• Army's chief prosecutor for sexual assault suspended for alleged assault at sexual assault legal conference.
• Sixteenth-century artillery manual suggests strapping bombs to cats and doves.
• Mr. Obama has fixed ideas about how best to pursue peace in the Middle East, and a far less solicitous style than his secretary of state, John Kerry.
• Norway will slice through island to memorialize victims of the 2011 massacre.
• Jews make up just 0.2% of Ukraine’s population, but outsized attention speaks more to parties' interests.
• Family stole over $7 million in toys via their daughter's long, compartmentalized skirt.
• Australia plans to build lasers on Earth that will de-orbit debris in space.
• See also: Tediously accurate scale model of the solar system if the moon were only one pixel big.
• Stunning projection-mapping on moving surfaces from the team that made Gravity so convincing.
• Shocked by his wife's poor menstrual hygiene, Indian worker invents machine to produce cheap sanitary pads.
• Panel of experts argues for and against daylight saving time—e.g., reducing pedestrian fatalities vs. more workplace injuries.
• Latest "Planet Money" says the concept of “the economy” is an artificial one designed to condense the world.
• Seemingly insulting nicknames are the norm in Somalia.
• Price of a pint of beer has risen almost 2,000% in England in the past 41 years.
• Dreamy collection of art deco-era Japanese railway posters.
• See also: Tracking down the minimum square-footage below which no one should be forced to endure life in London.
• Silence, or absence rather, has become a luxury commodity.
• More than 500 commercial bread products share an ingredient with yoga mats; vegan favorites and drywall share similar ingredients, too.