Headlines from May 7, 2013

The black hole of North Korea intelligence gathering is getting blacker.
Related: An illustrated guide to the on-again, off-again romance between Pyongyang and the U.S. #tmn
Daniel C. Dennett tests a theory that “surely” signals a weak philosophical argument.
Long-tongued bat uses the hair on its tongue—which can extend 50% past its tip—to feed on nectar. #video
If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. Schmidt’s arrogance presaged the Glass backlash.
Thoughts after a week of Glass: It’s a camera with potential.
Minnesota school district introduces bulletproof whiteboards as “an additional layer of protection” for students and teachers.
It’s like throwing a Lolita-themed children’s birthday party. Why contemporizing The Great Gatsby contradicts Fitzgerald’s message.
Oldie but goodie: Obama’s addiction to “is is.” #language
Linguists believe we have around two dozen words that have survived for 150 centuries.
Retired interior designer transcribes 788,000-word King James Bible by hand.
In this week’s gallery, photos from the edges of one of the last true wilderness areas in Western Europe. #tmn
My father…had left the home of his wife and four children in order to find out more about the love he had for another woman.
A train car implodes after filling it with steam and allowing it to cool. #video
Get this look, Twin Peaks edition: the Log Lady, the Giant, and Special Agent Dale Cooper.
A camera-mounted Peregrine Falcon dives and kills a duck in mid-air. #video
Investigators piece together what happened in West, Texas, where unverified amounts of volatile chemicals may have been housed.
One year after Obama affirmed his support of same-sex marriage, public opinion has followed suit.
For more than two years, a government lab has been running a quantum-sized internet.
You consider the wind from an approaching subway car to be a nice breeze. Signs you’ve lived in New York too long.
Related: A guide for where New Yorkers should expatriate. #maps
Young patients often have to undergo multiple operations to resize or replace devices that no longer fit or have worn out.
Playing golf yesterday with the president, Sen. Saxby Chambliss sunk a hole-in-one on the 11th hole.
Two years after a pick-up basketball game, the man whose elbow gave Obama 12 stitches finally speaks.
The legend persists of the time traveler from 2036 who arrived on the internet back in 2000.
I was the fastest SASE-addresser in the west, though I lived in the east. Jessica Francis Kane on the toils of writer submissions.
Shorter first names correlate to larger paychecks.
NPR personalities’ monikers have inspired the names of restaurants, songs, and pets.
Related: Clay Risen counts down the top 10 best-named meteorologists. #tmn
New evidence shows the Hanging Garden of Babylon was constructed 300 miles away, at Nineveh.
The East Coast braces for a cicada invasion in which humans will be outnumbered 600-to-1.
Related: The cacophony of cicadas’ mating rituals. #video