* China's mysterious duck, pig, and human deaths could point to a new pandemic on the horizon. * Sanitation workers, it turns out, have twice the fatality rates of police offers, and nearly seven times the fatality rates of firefighters. * A trans writer reports from both sides of the male
Black and white portraits of young men and women at the Milton Margai School for the Blind in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
* A big-data analysis of white supremacists shows Republicans need to do more to counter extremist views in the U.S. * How Muslims suffer under NYPD profiling. * EPA to propose cutting sulphur content in gasoline to improve the effectiveness of catalytic converters. * Dried whiskey residue that resembles celestial bodies * For
When your name prompts questions in several continents, how you answer—and whether or not you stick an accent above the “a”—says a lot about who you are.
* Kim Jong Un approves plan to ready rockets to hit U.S. targets; Pentagon urges North Korea to "dial the temperature down." * Researchers say the French have been unhappy for decades, trained early to acquire “multidimensional dissatisfaction and depressiveness.” * British princess sister Pippa Middleton says the secret of
* Google Street View locates a ghost town in Fukushima's evacuation zone. * Historically religious town allows widows to celebrate "Holi"—India's festival of color—for the first time. * Richard III's descendants claim breach of rights, challenge the planned reburial in York Minster. * Kubrick&
* Annual military drill sends American B-2 Spirit bombers over South Korea amid "heightened tension on the Korean Peninsula." * Illustrated guide to American-North Korean relations since the cold war. * Bill and Melinda Gates say the world needs a better condom "that significantly preserves or enhances pleasure,
* Crime plummets in Juarez—perhaps one cartel won over the other, maybe there's fewer young men to kill, or it could be better policing. * The trouble with being a snitch. * Brazilian doctor charged with killing seven patients now being investigated in nearly 300 other deaths. * The maker of
Pyongyang’s frequent threats toward the United States appear to be ratcheting up in intensity. How did we get to this point? An illustrated guide to the relationship’s recent romance, and why you should be nervous about North Korea.
* Justices say it could be too early to consider same-sex marriage, and may dismiss the case to allow states to continue experimenting. * According to Tony Kushner's prophecy, capitalism can absorb equal rights for gays, but still encourage many horrible things. * North Korea turns volume of missile systems—
