May 1, 2014

• Media outlet wonders why Hillary Clinton hates the media.
• Nicholas Kristof’s cheerleading isn’t helpful to Ukraine or Moldova.
• Politicians and executives alike embrace the walking meeting.
• Scientists discover the Egyptians built pyramids by sliding their stones across wet sand.
• Hawaii raised the state's hourly minimum wage to $10.10—$2.85 more than the federal minimum.
• Houston is about the same size as Oahu, and other maps that compare the Space City's sprawl to other metro areas.
• See also: A map guide to which neighborhoods in other cities New Yorkers should emigrate, should that day come.
• Illinoisans and Nutmeggers are fed up—nearly half of each state wants to move.
• If you drive a diesel car in Madrid, it now costs 20% more to park it.
• In Spain, long-distance trains are taken mainly more than planes.
• How we board airplanes is senseless—a comparison of other boarding methods, with one clear winner.
• Paul Ford selects the software canon.
• Big internet companies subsidize service delivery; net neutrality keeps the poorest offline.
• The illustrated story of an ex-con who became a bread-making legend.
• Pig-bladder cells, transplanted into the legs of injured patients, triggered creation of healthy muscle instead of scar tissue.
• Neanderthal is no longer an insult: Evidence indicates our extinct cousins were not dumber than modern humans.
• Junot Díaz on what's wrong with the MFA system.
• The evolution of New York City subway maps.
• When you can't decide what to stream, it's time for Netflix Roulette.