* Life after whistleblowing. * Our nation, divided in its Amazon reviews of Reza Aslan's Zealot: more than 100 five-star and one-star ratings. * See also: One-star Amazon reviews of the best modern novels. * Paris Chamber of Commerce launches "Do You Speak Touriste?" program to help
In the late 1870s, baseball was at risk of dying out before it even got started, strangled by a teetotaling, law-abiding, church-going new league. Then a German saloonkeeper in St. Louis got involved.
* The conviction of Manning, in other words, would also be a conviction of Assange. * The rape-pregnancy myth started as a mythical Nazi experiment. * To gather data in dangerous, hard-to-reach places—e.g., volcanoes—cheap, disposable drones are one answer. * As corporations snatch up new top-level domains,
* Armed thief enters French Riviera hotel, makes off with an estimated $50 million in jewelry. * The biggest jewelry heists in the last 10 years. * The real story about Snowden's revelations is that you can't trust an American cloud. * Every mistake by a major news organization was
A new book, “Only in Burundi,” provides a candid look into the post-conflict, everyday life of Burundians, from nuns to the president.
* Halliburton to plead guilty to destroying test results following the Deepwater disaster. * Global warming and overfishing are driving some lobsters to cannibalism. * Scientists discover dwindling bee populations are not necessarily due to insecticides, but a less solvable problem: fungicides. * Study finds a full moon negatively affects sleep quality. * The most
* Significant gender gaps found globally in public opinion about America's use of drones. * Security for the Pope's visit to Brazil said to cost the country $52 million. * Remembering New York's only black millionaire in the mid-19th century, Jeremiah G. Hamilton, now overlooked by
What Watertown teaches us about sourcing in journalism.
* A brief history of England's King Georges. * Jane Austen to replace Charles Darwin on UK's £10 note. * Irish justice minister calls his country's refusal to permit abortions for rape, incest, and fetal abnormalities "unacceptable cruelty." * Anthony Weiner's letter to his
* Nearly 80% of previously arrested burglars, surveyed in 2011, said info drawn from social media helps thieves plan jobs. * Private U.S. companies invest nearly twice as much as those listed on the stock market. * Geneva offers extremely secure giant safe for wealthy art patrons' collections. * China says no
