May 7, 2013: Morning
- Investigators piece together what happened in West, Texas, where unverified amounts of volatile chemicals may have been housed.
- One year after Obama affirmed his support of same-sex marriage, public opinion has followed suit.
- For more than two years, a government lab has been running a quantum-sized internet.
- Signs you've lived in New York too long.
- Related: A guide for where New Yorkers should expatriate.
- Young patients often have to undergo multiple operations to resize or replace devices that no longer fit or have worn out.
- Playing golf yesterday with the president, Sen. Saxby Chambliss sunk a hole-in-one on the 11th hole.
- Two years after a pick-up basketball game, the man whose elbow gave Obama 12 stitches finally speaks.
- The legend persists of the time traveler from 2036 who arrived on the internet back in 2000.
- Jessica Francis Kane on the toils of writer submissions.
- Shorter first names correlate to larger paychecks.
- NPR personalities' monikers have inspired the names of restaurants, songs, and pets.
- Related: Clay Risen counts down the top 10 best-named meteorologists.
- New evidence shows the Hanging Garden of Babylon was constructed 300 miles away, at Nineveh.
- The East Coast braces for a cicada invasion in which humans will be outnumbered 600-to-1.
- Related: The cacophony of cicadas' mating rituals.