May 21, 2014
- Retired NFL players allege they were illegally administered dangerous narcotics to keep them playing through the pain.
- Most of the world's newborn deaths...enter and leave the world without a piece of paper to record their existence.
- How developmental disorganization—where organs and tissues evolve at different rates—could help unlock anti-aging treatments.
- Experiment finds deadly bacteria such as MRSA can survive on plane seats for up to seven days.
- In 1966, Steinbeck argued for an aquatic NASA.
- Delaware truck crash releases 16 to 20 million honeybees—beekeepers who arrived on scene got to keep what they caught.
- These are the world's worst police sketches.
- Opera criticism is overrun with sexist comments about female stars' weight.
- Balzac on marriage.
- A short history of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, the world's finest emoticon.
- When Dr. Strangelove was released 50 years ago, it reached Americans ailing for an antidote to their anti-Communist paranoia.
- Related: An artist recreates scenes from Dr. Strangelove using household objects.
- Mozart had a weakness for scatological humor, which he displayed in letters and recreational compositions.
- Related: "Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber" may not have been the work of Mozart, but of Wenzel Trnka.
- A writer liquidates her library.
- See also: TMN's Alexander Chee weighs the effort of moving 22 boxes of books to lifting one e-reader.
- It is impressive that the Gladwellian house style of infuriatingly lazy reasoning can manifest itself in full on a Chipotle cup.