* Nigeria's 200+ kidnapped girls said to have been sold as brides to Boko Haram militants. * Untested drug cocktail leads to botched execution in Oklahoma, killing inmate 43 minutes later from a heart attack. * With NBA owners now on the hook for Sterling's future, other owners'
The Civil Rights Act, which marks its 50th anniversary this year, changed the shape of American society. The story of how it finally passed is just as remarkable.
* The great majority of innocent defendants convicted of capital murder in the US are neither executed nor exonerated. * Cities in Arkansas and Kansas, caught in the tornadoes' paths. * America's nuclear missile silos still use eight-inch floppy disks—outdated technology that's offline and unhackable. * The
* Japan's government pressures those evacuated in the 2010 nuclear meltdown to return home, where radiation is triple pre-accident levels. * Despite support from dozens of health groups, efforts to kill bacteria with radiation slow to catch on in the US. * Stop lying to yourselves, and to your children.
Large-scale, hand-drilled portraits—where pixels are drilled from enormous blown-up photographs—of people killed in Mexico's drug wars.
* [The end of net neutrality] threatens to make the internet...unequal in a way that deeply threatens our long-term prosperity. * Genetic analysis of blood and tissue from a 115-year-old woman indicates our cells' finite ability to divide might limit our life span. * Pastor running in South
A youthful pledge to become an essayist gets lost.
* Today the FCC ends the era of net neutrality, and will allow broadband suppliers to give preference to deep-pocketed companies. * Toxic West Virginia water will be pumped under Ohio, which may result in earthquakes. * Ineffective on climate change thus far, Obama has retooled his cabinet and restrategized new ways
* Rwanda's president gets a free pass on human rights abuses because of Western guilt over genocide. * The case for firing nearly the entire New York Times columnist pool: sloppy and tired to the point of making Gail Collins look good. * Divorce rate for piping plovers is 67%; flamingos
The Heartbleed Bug exposed a well-known secret: Passwords suck. But that’s really nothing new—just ask the Romans. Explaining the password’s past and future.
