May 7, 2013: Afternoon
- The black hole of North Korea intelligence gathering is getting blacker.
- Related: An illustrated guide to the on-again, off-again romance between Pyongyang and the U.S.
- Daniel C. Dennett tests a theory that "surely" signals a weak philosophical argument.
- Long-tongued bat uses the hair on its tongue—which can extend 50% past its tip—to feed on nectar.
- Schmidt's arrogance presaged the Glass backlash.
- Thoughts after a week of Glass: It's a camera with potential.
- Minnesota school district introduces bulletproof whiteboards as "an additional layer of protection" for students and teachers.
- Why contemporizing The Great Gatsby contradicts Fitzgerald's message.
- Oldie but goodie: Obama's addiction to "is is."
- Linguists believe we have around two dozen words that have survived for 150 centuries.
- Retired interior designer transcribes 788,000-word King James Bible by hand.
- In this week's gallery, photos from the edges of one of the last true wilderness areas in Western Europe.
- My father...had left the home of his wife and four children in order to find out more about the love he had for another woman.
- A train car implodes after filling it with steam and allowing it to cool.
- Get this look, Twin Peaks edition: the Log Lady, the Giant, and Special Agent Dale Cooper.
- A camera-mounted Peregrine Falcon dives and kills a duck in mid-air.