May 16, 2013: Afternoon
- The New Orleans Mother's Day shooting should be a "national tragedy," except it isn't.
- Activist protests Abercrombie CEO's opinion that his brand is not for "unattractive people" by donating its merchandise to the homeless.
- Chuck Hagel orders retraining of military personnel who work in sexual assault prevention.
- Chinese censors discuss what it's like to watch 700 pornographic movies a week.
- A picture of a large pair of eyes triggers feelings of surveillance in potential thieves, making them less likely to break the rules.
- Using underground tunnels, smugglers bring KFC into Gaza from Egypt.
- Motorcycle saviors, heroin that's not coke, and Detroit lingerie hell, by Rolling Stone's Mark Binelli
- Comedian hires pilot to skywrite jokes.
- Freakonomics: What do medieval nuns and Bo Jackson have in common?
- Scientist Jaak Panksepp set out to discern animals' emotions and ultimately learned even more about humans'.
- Images of food cut in half.
- "You will meet a tall, dark stranger" was removed when people complained they found it sinister.
- On playing GeoGuessr and thinking you're in one place when you're really in another.
- What's wrong with the accents in Game of Thrones.
- Related: 1) What the British say; 2) what they mean; and 3) what others understand.
- List of famous orphans and foundlings.