May 9, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- The Indian government's new monitoring system can access all its citizens' phone calls, texts, emails, and social media exchanges.
- Cholera victims in Haiti threaten to sue UN for negligence in allowing appointed peacekeepers to contaminate water supply.
- Scientists invent microparticle that, when injected, can keep a person alive for up to 30 minutes after respiratory failure.
- Nuns break into nuclear plant to protest lax security.
- Michigan high school students build a robotic locker opener for their disabled classmate.
- Texas Senate approves the Tim Tebow Bill, which would allow homeschooled athletes to play for high schools.
- New U.S. treasury secretary redraws his signature.
- Eritrea's political prisoner count is 10,000—it's second to North Korea in worst countries for press freedom.
- Collected quotations from Silk Road's founder.
- Nineteen emotions that cannot be expressed in English.
- Tumblr of the day: "The Worst Room" chronicles the worst of New York City's affordable housing.
- Highlights from Ian MacKaye's Library of Congress lecture.
- Watch 12 Years of DFA: Too Old to Be New, Too New to Be Classic, a documentary narrated by Marc Maron.
- Creation Records' Alan McGee returns from the country, announces new label, invites artists to send mp3s.
- Once everyone else was doing it, it was safe for the final demographic, the Cool Dads.
- TMN's Jessica Francis Kane hosts a genre-reveal party.
