May 23, 2013: Afternoon
- In 2011, the NYPD made more stops of young black men than the total number of young black men in New York City.
- Data shows white people stopped by the NYPD are more likely than minorities to be carrying guns or drugs.
- Scientific inaccuracies found in common idioms.
- New Star Trek movie got to film inside a secret government laser facility.
- Overview of female desire drugs currently in development—attempting to give women the power to switch on lust by meddling with their psyches.
- Iconic Great Depression photographs retouched to show small-town life among women-only families.
- Residents of Patsy Cline's hometown grapple with what her legacy means to them.
- Judge says unredeemed Borders gift cards are worthless—approximately $210.5 million held by 17.7 million people.
- Former Borders employee remembers when the greatest workplace on Earth was almost saved by unionization.
- How much of reading, then, is just a kind of narcissism—a marker of who you were and what you were thinking when you encountered a text?
- Face of the global human rights movement: Thor Halvorssen, "a rather unfortunate son of Venezuela’s elite."
- Ben Franklin's ideas for the practical uses of balloons.
- Texas supercar customizer transforms Ford Raptor pickup into the "VelociRaptor," a spacious SUV.
- Decade by decade, 130 years of photographs of the Brooklyn Bridge.