Headlines from May 19, 2014

Severe flooding in the Balkans has displaced at least 24,300 people and dislodged some of the 100,000 landmines in the region.
Eighty years after two scientists first theorized how light turns into matter, three physicists devise an experiment to prove it.
California has released thousands of Pakistani wasps to fight an invasive pest that destroyed 60,000 acres of farmland in Florida.
Researchers posit US companies that drug test hire more black people because otherwise, they hire based on bias.
Oslo artists recreate 1914 “Congo Village” to remind Norwegians of their nation’s history of racism.
If you write a novel “about Africa,” chances are you’re going to get the acacia tree treatment. And the orange sky.
When you enter the fugue state required for making art, you can’t really be a normal person. Alex Chee on the writers’ colony experience. #tmn
New book by a journalist most famous for his “Sex Lives” series suggests the Malaysia Airlines flight was shot down in a military exercise.
The crafty world of people who make sex machines at home. #nsfw
There are far more types of fungi than the pale, umbrella-shaped variety. #photos
More students in the United States drop out of college than finish it.
See also: Student debt is growing fastest at the universities with the highest paid presidents. #college
The KIPP charter schools’ “character education” model doesn’t work—we don’t know how to teach “character.” #opinions
How online gaming communities have learned to curb abuse—their findings can be applied to other communities.
If they’d had the pill a little earlier, I think I’d have eaten ‘em like popcorn. The song that popularized the pill.