May 21, 2012: Morning
- Notes on life in Egypt three days before voting begins in "the first competitive presidential election in the history of the Arab world."
- Ladies, attention: Zuckerberg is off the marriage market.
- Hormones, not video games, explain why teens stay up all night, and why school should start later.
- Hollande and Obama demonstrate that French fries and cheeseburgers can still be enjoyed together.
- Rendering of Earth if all the planet's water were bunched up in a ball.
- Charts show how far ahead we set our science fiction at various points in history.
- Notes from a physicist who tracks the movement of museumgoers.
- Infographics on love.
- Screen-capture from the episode of Leave It to Beaver when the production designers phoned it in.
- History of the New York Times restaurant critic's desk, as built by Craig Claiborne.
- Cornell scientists invent edible serving-size markers that act as subconscious stop signs.
- Why cities aren't littered with dead pigeons.
- Overview of soccer match fixing in Finland, Singapore, Turkey.
- Tales of preparation for the Gobi March: 250 kilometers spread over seven days, where runners carry everything they need themselves.
- Shacks built from salvaged materials and transformed into musical instruments.