May 24, 2013: Morning
- There is no light at the end of the tunnel for drone strikes...and other counterterrorism operations after 12 years of a global war.
- Anti-Islam backlash grows in Britain after Woolwich machete attack.
- UCLA surgeons broadcast brain surgery over social media.
- Doctors use 3D printing to create a new airway for a baby who had lost the ability to breathe on its own.
- This week a girl whose parents conceived her in hopes she could be a bone-marrow donor for her sister graduated from college.
- Apostrophes may be a moribund piece of grammar.
- Almanac from 1982 predicted a pound of beef would be $22.50 in 2010—and a gallon of gas would be $2.
- Greek yogurt's sharp rise in popularity has resulted in an overabundance of whey—no one is entirely sure what to do with it.
- The level of hunger in the United States is closer to Indonesia or Greece than it is to Britain or Canada.
- Osaka barista explores the craft of 3D latte art.
- How toothpaste makes orange juice taste bad.
- Why your "local" "craft" liquor is neither.
- NJ officials raid bars refilling premium liquor bottles with hooch—one mixed rubbing alcohol with caramel coloring and sold it as scotch.
- The concept of a flamethrowing tank in the 1930s was meant to be so horrifying as to turn people against war.
- In the summer of 1944, a handpicked group of G.I.s landed in France with truckloads of inflatable tanks.
- How Lego built a 46,000-pound X-Wing from approximately 5.3 million bricks.
- Related: "A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families."