* China expected to eat more than twice as much meat as America this year. * Food sources increasingly encourage carnivores—red foxes, coyotes—to trade natural habitats for urban areas. * Testing of nuclear-capable missiles continues, and now it's Pakistan's turn. * Atlantic story refuted: Facebook isn'
* Gingrich unofficially planning to officially announce end of campaign next Tuesday * Recent actions by former Haitian soldiers show why Haiti's better off without a standing army. * Ariely: America needs an agency akin to the FDA to monitor financial products. * Computational neuroscientists estimate the brain's storage capacity
* President Obama slow-jams the news with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots. * Now that Romney has won the primaries, his plan is to attack, attack, attack. * Notes from the "Mormon heart of Mexico," where Mitt Romney's father was born. * Map shows popularity of paying by mobile
* New book by TMN's @Rosecrans, Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down now available. * Guide to France's history of delightfully conquering people. * Interactive guide to Warren Buffett's thoughts about others. * Brief investigation into why Kevin Hart, the biggest comic working,
Predictions for the baseball season ahead from someone who hasn’t paid attention to sports statistics since the 1992 Orioles.
* One in two new college graduates in the U.S. are jobless or underemployed. * Weak economy, deportation threat reverses trend of Mexican immigration to the U.S. for the first time in four decades. * Rodney King, 20 years after the riots. * London accused of "social cleansing" over plan
* Why women are a foreign policy issue: This is a "full participation" age. * Two takes on recent pan-African development. * One hundred years of shipping summarized in a short video. * Two generations removed from the Holocaust, young Israelis begin to embrace Germany. * Report from inside Europe's
* After losing to his socialist rival in the first round of France's presidential election, Sarkozy seeks far-right support. * How Paula Reid, who handled the Secret Service scandal, became a leader in the white male-dominated field. * Running with headphones makes you faster. * When exposed to music, dementia
Irresistible paintings don’t always need giant frames. An interview with the painter who electrified this year’s Whitney Biennial.
Every Friday we take a look back at the week’s headlines, centering on a theme we’ve singled out as particularly important. Scientific findings, methodical studies, and reports were at the heart of many of the most interesting headlines this week, reminded us of science’s attempts to dispel
