Universities redesign libraries for the 21st century: fewer books, more space

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-college-libraries-20170419-story.html

How climate change dried up a Canadian glacier river in a matter of days

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2017/0418/How-climate-change-dried-up-a-Canadian-glacier-river-in-a-matter-of-days

Dinner With a Dung Beetle

https://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000004858104/dung-beetle.html

The big hole in Trump’s wall

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2017/04/fewer-hombres

Starbucks calls shifting-color drink a “Unicorn Frappuccino”

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/starbucks-calls-shifting-color-drink-a-unicorn-frappuccino/

Scientists find giant, elusive clam known as ‘the unicorn of mollusks’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/04/17/scientists-find-giant-elusive-clam-known-as-the-unicorn-of-mollusks/

How the Airlines Became Abusive Cartels

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/opinion/how-the-airlines-became-abusive-cartels.html

The Love Lives of Bolsheviks

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/opinion/the-love-lives-of-bolsheviks.html

Sultan Qaboos has been everything for Oman. But has he secured its future?

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2017/0417/Sultan-Qaboos-has-been-everything-for-Oman.-But-has-he-secured-its-future

Stripped Village Homes Expose a Hollowing Out of France’s Heritage

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/world/europe/france-joinville-heritage.html

Anatomy of a Lynching

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/opinion/anatomy-of-a-lynching.html

Climate change, and common-sense politics

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/upfront-blog/2017/0416/Climate-change-and-common-sense-politics

The world's greenest island

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2017/0416/The-world-s-greenest-island

What’s in Your Microwave Oven?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/opinion/whats-in-your-microwave-oven.html

Dirty Birds What it’s like to live with a national symbol

https://story.californiasunday.com/dirty-birds

Insect Heroes? Ants Save Their Injured Comrades

https://www.yahoo.com/news/insect-heroes-ants-save-injured-163200116.html

Yes, Your Sleep Schedule Is Making You Sick

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/opinion/sunday/can-sleep-deprivation-cure-depression.html

Last of New York’s Master Wigmakers

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/nyregion/new-york-city-wigmakers.html

Ancient Cannibals Didn’t Eat Just for the Calories, Study Suggests

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/science/cannibalism-human-body-calories.html?_r=0

You Draw It: Just How Bad Is the Drug Overdose Epidemic?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/14/upshot/drug-overdose-epidemic-you-draw-it.html

America drops its most powerful non-nuclear bomb on Afghanistan

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21720900-donald-trump-giving-his-generals-much-more-freedom-his-predecessor-america-drops

The Point of Hate

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/opinion/the-point-of-hate.html

Filing Taxes in Japan Is a Breeze. Why Not Here?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/opinion/filing-taxes-in-japan-is-a-breeze-why-not-here.html

How to Escape From a Car in Water

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/magazine/how-to-escape-from-a-car-in-water.html

Why the Syrian Chemical Weapons Problem Is So Hard to Solve

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/world/middleeast/why-the-syrian-chemical-weapons-problem-is-so-hard-to-solve.html

Why Politicians Love to Talk About Training Welders

http://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Politicians-Love-to-Talk/239787

Did Hitler fake being a victim of gas warfare?

http://www.timesofisrael.com/did-hitler-fake-being-a-victim-of-gas-warfare/

New film on Nazi occupation of Channel Islands prompts disquieting questions for Brits

http://www.timesofisrael.com/new-film-on-nazi-occupation-of-channel-islands-prompts-disquieting-questions-for-brits/

‘Just look up, people’: The fire all around us

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/just-look-up-people-the-fire-all-around-us/

Why Did This Man Lose His Memory, Words and Even His Ability to Walk?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/magazine/why-did-this-man-lose-his-memory-words-and-even-his-ability-to-walk.html

‘Assassins!’: A Confederate spy was accused of helping kill Abraham Lincoln. Then he vanished.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/04/13/assassins-a-confederate-spy-was-accused-of-helping-kill-abraham-lincoln-then-he-vanished/

What makes a knot strong? Scientists have figured out how your shoelaces untie themselves

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/0412/What-makes-a-knot-strong-Scientists-have-figured-out-how-your-shoelaces-untie-themselves

Can’t pay your student loan bill? Here’s what to do

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/cant-pay-your-student-loan-bill-heres-what-to-do/

Painting like mankind’s greatest artists is almost too easy now

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/04/07/painting-like-mankinds-greatest-artists-is-almost-too-easy-now/

I’m Not Texting. I’m Taking Notes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/jobs/texting-work-meetings-social-media.html

If Gorsuch is like his colleagues, he’ll constantly interrupt the female justices

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/04/11/if-gorsuch-is-like-his-colleagues-hell-constantly-interrupt-the-female-justices/

At stake in Johannesburg's 'recycling wars': more than trash

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2017/0411/At-stake-in-Johannesburg-s-recycling-wars-more-than-trash

Salt keeps icy roads safe. It’s also putting North America’s freshwater lakes at risk

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/04/10/salt-putting-north-america-freshwater-lakes-risk/

The Patients Were Saved. That’s Why the Families Are Suing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/health/wrongful-life-lawsuit-dnr.html

How to Write a New York Times Headline

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/09/insider/how-to-write-a-new-york-times-headline.html

Q&A: Mormon grandmother, refugee camp manager never stops caring for others

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865677442/QA-Mormon-grandmother-refugee-camp-manager-never-stops-caring-for-others.html

Portable Toilets Converted Into Homes May Help With Homeless Crisis

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2017/04/06/portable-toilets-converted-into-homes-may-help-with-homeless-crisis/

Up Against the Wall

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/opinion/up-against-the-wall.html

Why tiny electric planes and $25 tickets could be the future of regional air travel

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/04/08/why-tiny-electric-planes-and-25-tickets-could-be-the-future-of-air-travel/

Want to keep black kids from running away from home? Stop hitting them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/04/07/want-to-keep-black-kids-from-running-away-from-home-stop-hitting-them/

The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/opinion/sunday/the-utter-uselessness-of-job-interviews.html

The Myth of Main Street

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/opinion/sunday/the-myth-of-main-street.html

Fact Check now available in Google Search and News around the world

https://blog.google/products/search/fact-check-now-available-google-search-and-news-around-world/

Google rolls out new 'Fact Check' tool worldwide to combat fake news

http://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2017/0407/Google-rolls-out-new-Fact-Check-tool-worldwide-to-combat-fake-news

Graphene oxide: A better membrane, but no 'silver bullet' for desalination

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/0407/Graphene-oxide-A-better-membrane-but-no-silver-bullet-for-desalination

How to Make Cheap Earbuds Sound Like $200 Headphones

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-make-cheap-earbuds-sound-like-200-headphones-1491590775

Just watch the video. You don't need to read the article.

Slovenian firm brings tombstones to life with digital content

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-slovenia-tombstones-idUSKBN1791LR

Today's teens want gender equality, but not at home

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865676811/Todays-teens-want-gender-equality-but-not-at-home.html

How a Browser Extension Could Shake Up Academic Publishing

http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-a-Browser-Extension-Could/239714

The ‘alternative facts’ epidemic goes way beyond politics

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-alternative-facts-epidemic-goes-way-beyond-politics/2017/04/05/01a75ee0-1966-11e7-855e-4824bbb5d748_story.html

Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 2035

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/04/06/supreme-court-confirmation-hearings-in-2035-2/

If no one is behind the wheel in an autonomous car crash, who pays?

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2017/0406/If-no-one-is-behind-the-wheel-in-an-autonomous-car-crash-who-pays

Dawn Armstrong: Homelessness has a face, and it's mine

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865677107/Dawn-Armstrong-Homelessness-has-a-face-and-its-mine.html?pg=all

Why You Shouldn’t Walk on Escalators

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/us/escalators-standing-or-walking.html

Check This Box if You’re a Good Person

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/opinion/check-this-box-if-youre-a-good-person.html

She found a way to make plastic waste useful

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/2017/0330/She-found-a-way-to-make-plastic-waste-useful

Decades after extinction declaration, hunt for Tasmanian tiger resumes

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2017/0331/Decades-after-extinction-declaration-hunt-for-Tasmanian-tiger-resumes

Laser maps reveal slide risk with startling clarity, but few citizens know they exist

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2023244512_mudslidelidarxml.html

How to Get a Job at Google

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-how-to-get-a-job-at-google.html

Watching TV Without Paying for Cable

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/27/technology/personaltech/watching-tv-without-paying-for-cable.html

For the Love of Money

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/opinion/sunday/for-the-love-of-money.html?_r=0

Bats, Blood and Beirut: Lebanon's unorthodox body hair removal technique raises brows

http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/bat-blood-hair-removal-520812

New Devices Mind Pets While Owners Are Away

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/technology/personaltech/new-devices-mind-pets-while-owners-are-away.html

Tenure of American Workers (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

http://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2013/tenure/home.htm 

CRS Report: Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2013

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R42738.pdf

A Race to Save the Orange by Altering Its DNA

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/science/a-race-to-save-the-orange-by-altering-its-dna.html

Rise of the Warrior Cop

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323848804578608040780519904.html

Where We Are Shapes Who We Are

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/opinion/sunday/a-self-defined-by-place.html?

Beauty Tips for the FDA

http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/investigations/envirohealth/1787/beauty_tips_for_the_fda/?page=entire

How water bottles create cheap lighting in Philippines

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14967535