May 8, 2014

• Mexico's biggest financial institution thinks migration to the US is on the rise for the first time since the Great Recession hit.
• New York's Chinese community mourns the loss of human smuggler—aka "snakehead"—Cheng Chui Ping.
• Financial ignorance is widespread even as the world has changed in ways that make such ignorance more dangerous than ever before.
• Russian newspapers report Russia plans to colonize the Moon by 2030.
• We're sending rockets to the wrong celestial body: We want Jupiter’s moon Europa, not Mars.
• Watch NASA's latest experiment: a live stream of Earth as seen from the International Space Station.
• Bill Nye devoted years explaining science to children—it's why he's our most effective spokesman for climate change to deniers.
• Community straps on DIY brain stimulators to memorize scripture, get a runner's high, and feel more creative.
• It was Dowd who kept writing about Lewinsky week after week, capitalizing on her crazed bimbo character for the better part of 1999.
• Approximately 200,000 victims of bullying bring weapons to school each month.
• South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott has been working at burrito shops and Goodwills throughout the state on a secret election campaign.
• After much debate, the New York senate settles on yogurt as the state snack.
• A look inside the sexual activity of modern Berlin's gay community, through the lens of a bathhouse.
• So-called "Foreign Language Bookshop" in North Korea contains no books by foreign writers.
• The Alt Lit writing community stars use the "jagged stylistics" of social media to their advantage.
• Captivating footage of an octopus opening a jar from the inside.
• In the name of crash-optimization, you should program the car to crash into whatever can best survive the collision.