May 31, 2013: Afternoon
- NYU grad student creates API that enables the public to analyze drone-strike data from as far back as 2002.
- A liberal infiltrates Fox News.
- A group of archaeologists says Archaeopteryx should now be considered a bird, rather than a birdlike dinosaur.
- To facilitate more efficient walking for biped robots, researchers develop a humanlike lower leg.
- Researchers teach chimpanzees and bonobos gambling games, find apes throw human-like tantrums when they lose.
- Guy and Ann Neff didn't want to send their 12-year-old son Adam away to a tennis academy. So they built one in their backyard.
- We could eradicate extreme poverty by 2030.
- Artist creates a small-batch, artisanal High-Fructose Corn Syrup DIY kit.
- Wine makers aren't required to list ingredients, which means even discerning foodies are drinking highly processed wines.
- Menus from defunct Williamsburg restaurants.
- Fitzgerald called it: Why the Boomers are the most hated generation.
- When it comes to supporting the national parks, few have been as reliable as baby boomers.
- Velvet Underground settles lawsuit with the Warhol Foundation for the right to make banana-themed iPhone cases.
- Behind-the-scenes images from iconic David Bowie photographs.
- Related: "Diaries of Andy Warhol, Terrorism Czar."
- As ridiculous as that sounds, it's the truth Liberace had decided to share with the public, and the truth we should have solemnly accepted.
- A Northwestern music student refuses to perform his finals because it includes the writings of noted racist Walt Whitman.
- The evolution of the Star Wars logo.