"My wife has been my only sex partner and that was after marriage.": Keep talking, Sandusky. Sentenced to 30 to 60.
Taliban Shoot a 14-Year-Old Pakistani Girl in the Head: She was shot in the head and neck, and sustains serious injuries, because she campaigned for girls' education. She was sitting on a school bus. She was an "obscenity," the Pakistani Taliban says.
They're Saying the Leader of the Zetas Mexican Drug Cartel Has Been Killed: Heriberto Lazcano, dead? The Zetas have posted their victims' heads on spikes.
Torture for Political Protesters in Greece?: They're calling it Abu Ghraib-style.
Poor Abigail Fisher: Being white is hard. The Supreme Court is set to hear her case on how being white is hard on Wednesday.
A Conversation with Orlando Cruz: The champion boxer—El Fenomeno—who came out recently. The writing of the story is irritatingly sexist and stereotypical. Watch the video instead, listen to him talk.
Charles Schumer, Democrat of New York, Will Block a Plan to Cut Taxes on the Wealthy: Election-season posturing or "planting a new Democratic flag"?
MIT Students Invent a Vest That Hugs You: Every time you're "Liked" on Facebook.
Felix Baumgartner Is His Name: He's hoping the weather makes it so that this morning around 11 am in New Mexico, he can become the first skydiver to break the sound barrier in a 23-mile free fall jump. There will be a camera on his face, and the former world record holder (19.5 miles, 1960, Joe Kittinger) will be the only one allowed to talk to him while he falls.
Catching Nature in the Act of Being Quantum: What today's Nobel prize-winning scientists have done, involving ideas about cats being alive and dead at the same time.
If You Want to Win the Nobel, You Should Be a Man, Be Married and Wear Glasses and a Beard: Amusing graphic about who wins and what they have in common.
HIV-Positive Women in Kenya: Forced-sterilized, now talking about it.
Iraq to Become the World's Largest Oil Exporter?: They're working on it.
The Workplace of the Future: Involves a hologram of your boss.
Fights Over the Name of a Kabul University: Reveal the mess of history and the mess of now.
Only 870 Million People in the World Are Hungry: Not the 1 billion they told us about in 2009. PHEW.
He Competitively Ate a Bunch of Live Roaches (and Worms), Thereby Winning the Competition for a Python, But Then He Died (Now the Python Goes to His Estate): This is how they do in Florida. (Yay for the fact that this classic endeavor from 2009, when we thought there were 1 billion hungry people rather than a mere 870 million, ended better for one Paul Constant. Hands in the air—here's the video.)
Art.sy Being Pitched as A Genome for Art: Robert Storr, curator/historian, quipped after looking at the site, “This place is littered with really terrible art that nobody should be directed to.”
For the first seven seasons, there was no black winner on South Africa's version of American Idol, and South Africans are still talking about what that's about. Then, a week ago, Khaya Mthethwa won. He sang Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass," which he heard for the first time that day. And, um, yeah:
