May 6, 2013: Afternoon
- More than 30 years before Jason Collins, baseball's Glenn Burke was the first openly gay player in the majors.
- Related: When Glenn Burke invented the high five.
- Every conceivable piece of data transmitted or received by U.S. citizens is kept at the NSA's new facility deep in the Utah desert.
- The U.S.'s seven-year insider-trading investigation.
- The Colberts say they are perfectly willing to hire qualified people who are not British.
- The towns furthest north, south, east, and west in all 50 states and territories.
- The postal workers who decipher illegible addresses.
- My palm passed through the wiry bristles of a hippo's snout. I realised I was underwater, trapped up to my waist in his mouth.
- A potential cure for male-pattern baldness: The "vampire treatment" involves extracting blood and re-injecting it into the scalp.
- Photographer's self-portraits capture strangers in public places giving her negative looks for being overweight.
- Vanessa Veselka on researching her truck-stop killer piece.
- Related: "Trailers for Everyday Life."
- NASA photo of the day: a lunar eclipse composited from consecutive exposures.