- AP Photo/The Boston Globe, David L Ryan
- The scene at the Boston Marathon yesterday
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.
Hey, did you read:
• Mother Jones‘s frequently updated guide to what we know so far about the Boston Marathon explosion? —Tal Rosenberg
• That Reagan’s budget director David Stockman blasted Wall Street and Washington for being addicted to the “heroin of cheap money“? —Mick Dumke
• That Floridians are experiencing an infestation of African giant land snails? —Tony Adler
• That the Illinois house approved a $50 fine for tossing cigarette butts? (But first they had to debate “what constitutes a cigarette”—government!) —Gwynedd Stuart
• That even just a taste of beer can increase dopamine levels in your brain? —Julia Thiel
• About ultrarunner Lizzy Hawker? (When her 200-mile flight back to Kathmandu was canceled, she just ran there.) —Steve Bogira
• About the Voynich manuscript, an illuminated work, supposedly from the 13th century, that has so far baffled scientists and linguists but may be a hoax? —Kate Schmidt
• That you can own a historic firehouse on the north side? —Tal Rosenberg