November 6, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Dutch activists posing as an avatar named "Sweetie" identify 1000 pedophiles soliciting webcam displays.
- The United States is second behind China in the consumption of illegal animal products like ivory, rhinoceros horn, tiger blood.
- "New Documentary Reveals SeaWorld Forced Orca Whales To Perform Nude."
- Photo of the day: "Lego Record Store."
- Related: A common nomenclature for Lego families, when every family has a different word for “a clippy bit."
- India's mission to Mars, with a $72 million price tag, costs less than some New York and London apartments.
- See also: Thomas Jefferson explains what he learned from his time spent in France.
- Extremely detailed plans and illustrations for a nomadic city that can move on caterpillar tracks.
- Kepler finds 3,500 other planets that could provide a suitable habitat for humans.
- Reputed engineer's 1916 plan to expand Manhattan by 50 square miles included draining the East River.
- For stressed-out New Yorkers, particularly those afraid of the dark, bicycling becomes therapy.
- See also, a modest proposal: "How to Not Kill a Cyclist."
- On Nov. 9, 1938, the Nazis committed the worst pogrom in Germany since the Middle Ages; new exhibit finds that diplomats mostly shrugged it off.
- German dictionary's addition of anglicized words like "shitstorm" and "snackbox" provokes strong backlash.
- German study finds that employees with noble-sounding surnames (Kaiser) have better careers than those with run-of-the-mill surnames (Koch).
- Why it’s not hard to lose weight in Germany, even when you’re drinking beer and eating bread.
- "California Explosion Possibly Caused By THC Extraction."
