May 21, 2013: Afternoon
- China’s new-home prices rose last month in 68 of 70 cities, with average annual wages for urban private company employees jumping 14 percent.
- Japanese researchers figure out why babies respond to patting and being moved: to avoid existential threats.
- On the comeback trail, hallucinogens are being tried recreationally by nearly one in five American adults.
- Interactive guide offers summer cocktails that only have three ingredients.
- See also: Round-up of the best bottled drinks for warm weather.
- Navy's current use of dolphins and other mammals compared to Jefferson Davis's employment of 75 camels.
- When Zach Galifianakis was unknown, he befriended a woman at the laundromat; since then he has rescued her from homelessness and taken her to movie premieres.
- Virginia nominee for attorney general wrote bill that would have forced women to report their miscarriages or face a year in jail.
- From 2012, John Hawbaker explains what it's like when a tornado throws a tree on your house.
- Growing up in the South gives you a fascination with tornadoes. They are evil in intent and mythic in scale, fickle beasts, revered and feared in an almost spiritual way.
- Calcutta's 140-year-old tram service—the only service of its kind in India—faces crippling decline.
- Novelist David Foster Wallace not only predicted binge-watching, he had ideas about what comes next.
- "Best organ solo ever" by Ray Manzarek, Doors' keyboardist who died yesterday.
- Carla Bruni tries to relaunch musical career while her husband remains in the headlines for political scandal.
- What makes Nancy Jo Sales' The Bling Ring incredible: the lawyers.