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Scott Barbour / Getty Recruiting Women to Online Dating Was a Challenge
Match.com started with questions about weight and explicit sexual preferences. Half the population wasn’t that into it.
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AP Penguins Were a Lonely Explorer’s Best Friends
When the ice closed in, the earliest Antarctic expeditions turned to the birds for discovery, meat, and camaraderie.
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Stringer / Reuters Weibo’s Free-Speech Failure
How a dissident movement almost broke through China’s internet censorship
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Javier Galeano / AP Can a Dolphin Really Commit Rape?
Nature isn’t cruel—it’s just careless.
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Khalil Ashawi / Reuters Getting Lost Makes the Brain Go Haywire
In caves and labyrinths, humans’ cerebral navigation equipment is mostly useless. That can spark panic or free the mind.
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Tim Chong / Reuters The Tricky Ethics of Transplants for Addicts
Many programs require liver recipients to be six months sober, but that policy may funnel organs away from the people they’re most likely to help.
