May 30, 2014

• BBC tracks public sentiment and key political events as Scotland prepares to vote on independence.
• Mexican newspaper Más Por Más prints news stories on towels in bathrooms to drive traffic to its website.
• St. Mary's Church found to be the most ambiguous term on Wikipedia, followed by Communist Party, and Aliabad.
• September 11 museum removes a commemorative cheese plate from its gift shop.
• One month after​ ​an Indian ​politician said, "Boys will be boys," in response to ​possible ​execution for gang rapists, two teenage sisters​ were raped and murdered.
• Pictures of national spelling bee semifinalists caught deep in thought.
• See also: Hyper-reallistic paintings of swimmers in American lakes.
• Chicago’s terrible history of segregationist policies is the strongest foundation for the case for reparations.
• In light of Donald Sterling's 15,900% return if Steve Ballmer's $2 billion Clippers bid succeeds, a list of other eye-catching investments.
• “Harvard M.B.A. Indicator” says that wherever recent Harvard grads are heading for work is likely a bubble posed to pop.
• College women use "slut" to police their peers' looks​ and style, not their sexual conquests.
• Given that we've all agreed, if only by our passive acquiescence, not to prevent a shooting, can we please quit pretending to care?
• Seth Rogen, Judd Apatow, and video-game makers perhaps are to blame for killers—but still we should try to control guns.
• Dispelling the myth of effortless female thinness.
• Auditory illusions: How what we see changes what we hear.
• Illegal drugs flow smoothly through Amazon.com: muscle relaxants, steroids, and prescription meds.
• Wine: a spiritual history.
• Reporter spends a month with 50 Cent as his life coach.