Headlines from April 23, 2013

Obama given poor marks for lacking Lyndon Johnson’s toughness during the gun-control fight; supporters say DC has changed since Johnson’s era.
Related: “The Ghost of Gun Control.” #video
K-Pop’s “neon bubble” distances South Koreans from pre-separation history and Kim Jong-un’s threats.
In the wreckage of the recent gold crash, profiles of five high-flying financiers who lost big in the selloff.
Bank secrecy is dying in Europe thanks mainly to America’s “flying taxman.”
Poison control centers received over 200 calls last year related to the “cinnamon challenge,” with at least 30 teens needing medical attention.
Photographer Platon explains how to get world leaders to open up for portrait pictures.
Only Terrence Malick can simultaneously create endless beauty and endless boredom. #opinions
See also: Photographs of airplanes being torched on purpose. #photography #tmn
West Texas fertilizer plant’s last full inspection was 28 years ago.
In the first quarter this year, ticket sales for American movies in China fell 65%, to about $200 million, while sales for Chinese-language films rose 128%, to well over $500 million.
Singapore retains colonial ban on homosexual acts, for which violators can spend up two two years in jail.
They took this innocent thing and dressed it up and put a lot of makeup on it. Assessment of Mexican wine.
At this time, we only know of three dinosaurs that had a taste for sushi.
Ze Frank explains intimate details about duck anatomy in a manner that is likely unsuitable for the workplace. via #video
Law-enforcement officials say the FBI shouldn’t have made much of Russia’s 2011 tip-off about Tsarnaev.
Stories collected from runners and spectators found in an iconic Boston Marathon bombing picture.
Pictures of the Boston shootout taken by an eye witness who lived nearby.
Few Chechens live in the U.S. mainly because America doesn’t resettle Chechen refugees here.
The trouble with the Boston lockdown: It made leaving a one-night-stand much more difficult.
After Boston, races will have heightened security, revised finish lines, and more checkpoints.
For anyone still paying attention to Syria’s civil war: Hundreds feared dead after six days of fighting in the Damascus suburbs.
In 2011, nearly half of New York City’s population qualified as poor or near-poor.
Reporter’s survey of online university classes results in high marks for everything but professor-to-student interaction.
Midlife crisis, starstruck woman. Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon explains what happened to her marriage with Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore.
Sole survivor of Lake Huron shipwreck explains what it’s like to be a celebrity in “the small world of boat nerds, wreck divers, and sailors.” #tmn
Woman inserts herself and her camera into iconic photographs. #photography
Doctors use Tetris to treat lazy eye, finding it four times more effective than traditional treatment.
Dwight Howard missed more free throws this season (366) than Lakers teammate Steve Nash has missed in his 17-year NBA career (322).