- Two Korean families give up the internet for a week in a BBC experiment.
- Apollo astronauts do not react favorably to Obama's cutting of the moon program. A perspective on a time when traveling to the moon was cool, or at least funded.
- Taiwanese justice minister quits in protest over lack of support for a permanent end to the death penalty.
- China puffs its chest and warns Google to behave. Meanwhile, a driver-blogger-heartthrob pushes his luck with the government whilst walking along the Great Firewall.
- Stress is fucking up our kids.
- America's shift to a majority non-white country is accelerated by the shrinking numbers of white women of child-bearing age.
- The FCC announces plans to beef up America's internet infrastructure so that it can finally join the rest of the world.