May 9, 2013: Morning
- Wisconsin approves bill to require recipients of food stamps to spend at least two-thirds of monthly benefits on food that's not junk.
- Photographs of Chinese farmers', engineers', and businessmen's do-it-yourself projects.
- See also: Jack Hitt's "Amateurs' Role in Grand Challenges."
- Fewer than 1,000 natural-gas fueling stations exist around the U.S., and many of them are closed to the public
- The average conservative reformist output consists of about three articles bashing liberal statism for every one questioning Republican dogma.
- Google results show Americans remain far more interested in the Benghazi hearings than the Benghazi attacks.
- NASA launches rockets to observe “neutral winds” in the ionosphere.
- Learning techniques evaluated and compared; prepare to quit highlighting, summarizing, employing imagery.
- Historic pictures of early science labs.
- Instructions for East Coast residents on how to build a cicada sensor.
- Introduction to the arcane world of eels and eel migration—"probably the most miraculous example of migratory evolution on the planet."
- New studies employing huge, previously unavailable data sets suggest that, in some instances, "hot hands" are real.
- Mark Bowden on the detection used to solve a real-life locked-room mystery in Texas.
- Covers for well-known books redesigned as if the author of that book was of the opposite gender.