May 2, 2013: Morning
- American citizen sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in North Korea—possibly to entice an American president to come free him.
- Roots of Buddhists killing Muslims in Burma and Sri Lanka traced back to "a Faustian pact with state power."
- Chart weaves together economic growth in Africa with general wellbeing.
- Christoph Niemann uses folded currency to show how hard it is to chase money.
- With limits on car purchases in Shanghai, license plates cost more than cars.
- Big pictures from the past month in Afghanistan, where evidence of significant progress "remains elusive."
- Leaked video of Turkmen President falling off his horse undermines Superman image.
- Recent labor disputes between mountaineers and sherpas on Everest are part of a long, tense history.
- Physical anthropologist uses forensic analysis to confirm suspicions that Jamestown settlers resorted to cannibalism in 1609.
- Former tobacco farmers in Virginia encouraged to grow chickpeas in order to meet America's new appetite for hummus.
- Eighty percent of Americans believe a conspiracy was involved in JFK's death, and 1/3 believe the U.S. had a hand in 9/11.
- Compared with infant mortality rates of other developed nations, the U.S. still ranks among the worst, especially its southern states.
- See also: New York's murder rate has been more than five times higher than London’s for 200 years.
- Angry and opposed to New York's new gun-control laws: Hollywood's prop departments.
- IBM scientists make world's smallest stop-motion movie by animating individual atoms.
- Sno Cone Joe operator faces harassment and stalking charges after yelling "This is my town!" at Mr. Ding-A-Ling driver.