May 22, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- In 2011, American households spent more on their pets annually than they spent on alcohol, landline phone bills, or men's and boys' clothing.
- Stunning cellphone footage shows Oklahoma tornado beginning to form, starting to wreak havoc.
- See also: Time-lapse video of the Moore tornado as seen from space.
- From 1906, Jack London visits San Francisco after a devastating earthquake to report what he saw for Collier's.
- Oklahomans don't like basements because they're prone to leaks and may damage a home's resale value.
- China builds 100 new museums each year—400 in 2011—but struggles with programming, publicity, and generating demand.
- To build a single web page completely from scratch, you would need to completely remake civilization.
- Obama to explain his embrace of drones tomorrow and review efforts to close Guantánamo Bay.
- Egypt's revolution instilled Islamic law, but paved the way for a gay rights movement.
- Portraits of young men in Panama showing off their "priti baiks."
- Online game of the day to play with friends: GeoGuesser, where you try to figure out where/what you see.
- Recommendations to improve every state's official bird.
- Mark Bittman explains his diet, and why he stops eating vegan at the dinner hour.
- Slowed-down footage of people running to catch trains.
- Susan Orlean: I got my treadmill desk about three months ago, but I’m still in the announcement phase.
