May 17, 2013: Afternoon
- According to the Congressional Budget Office, the deficit crisis is solved for the next decade, and sequestration is dumb.
- If you can't get a cast like that together, you can forget changing anything in a great big way.
- Boston Marathon runners—two wheelchair-bound—return to cross the finish line.
- Swapping direct language for more innocuous terms helps diminish the reality of horrific events as we process them.
- Declassified documents from 1983 reveal how a U.S. missile simulation nearly ended in nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
- From 1968, the Howard Johnson's children's menu featured a 2001: A Space Odyssey theme.
- Fourth-grader secretly films school cafeteria to prove what's on the menu isn't exactly what's served.
- According to a new study, small electrical shocks to the brain may improve arithmetic skills.
- With the help of cell phones, West Africa's pirate fishing problem is coming to an end.
- Engineer launches initiative to turn climbers' feces into biogas to power Sherpa villages.
- In short, going number one makes it that much worse when someone else goes number two.
- How a virus invades your body.