Headlines from May 9, 2013

The Indian government’s new monitoring system can access all its citizens’ phone calls, texts, emails, and social media exchanges.
Cholera victims in Haiti threaten to sue UN for negligence in allowing appointed peacekeepers to contaminate water supply. #health
Scientists invent microparticle that, when injected, can keep a person alive for up to 30 minutes after respiratory failure.
They also sprayed the exterior of the complex with baby bottles containing human blood. Nuns break into nuclear plant to protest lax security.
Michigan high school students build a robotic locker opener for their disabled classmate. #kidstoday
Texas Senate approves the Tim Tebow Bill, which would allow homeschooled athletes to play for high schools.
New U.S. treasury secretary redraws his signature.
Eritrea’s political prisoner count is 10,000—it’s second to North Korea in worst countries for press freedom.
My intentions are genuine and no amount of money could buy my integrity. Collected quotations from Silk Road’s founder. #drugs
Nineteen emotions that cannot be expressed in English. #chart
Tumblr of the day: “The Worst Room” chronicles the worst of New York City’s affordable housing.
Skateboarding is a way of learning how to redefine the world around you. Highlights from Ian MacKaye’s Library of Congress lecture.
Watch 12 Years of DFA: Too Old to Be New, Too New to Be Classic, a documentary narrated by Marc Maron. #video
Creation Records’ Alan McGee returns from the country, announces new label, invites artists to send mp3s. #music
Once everyone else was doing it, it was safe for the final demographic, the Cool Dads. #celebrities #tmn
Give everyone else instructions on how to write an Amazon or Goodreads review. TMN’s Jessica Francis Kane hosts a genre-reveal party.
Wisconsin approves bill to require recipients of food stamps to spend at least two-thirds of monthly benefits on food that’s not junk.
Photographs of Chinese farmers’, engineers’, and businessmen’s do-it-yourself projects.
See also: Jack Hitt’s “Amateurs’ Role in Grand Challenges.”
Fewer than 1,000 natural-gas fueling stations exist around the U.S., and many of them are closed to the public
The average conservative reformist output consists of about three articles bashing liberal statism for every one questioning Republican dogma.
Google results show Americans remain far more interested in the Benghazi hearings than the Benghazi attacks.
NASA launches rockets to observe “neutral winds” in the ionosphere.
Learning techniques evaluated and compared; prepare to quit highlighting, summarizing, employing imagery.
Historic pictures of early science labs. #photography
Instructions for East Coast residents on how to build a cicada sensor.
Introduction to the arcane world of eels and eel migration—“probably the most miraculous example of migratory evolution on the planet.”
New studies employing huge, previously unavailable data sets suggest that, in some instances, “hot hands” are real.
Mark Bowden on the detection used to solve a real-life locked-room mystery in Texas.
Covers for well-known books redesigned as if the author of that book was of the opposite gender.