A BALANCED APPROACH

The United States has already had more cases of measles in the first month of 2015 than the number that is typically diagnosed in a full year. This follows a year in which the number of cases was several times more than the average since 2000, when the disease was declared eliminated in the United States.

SUN -> JUPITER

As fast as light is (and it's really, really fast) it still takes it about 45 minutes to travel from our Sun to Jupiter. Here's that journey in real time. The anticipation of each approaching planet is only eclipsed by how small they seem, and how vastly, mind-bogglingly empty our solar system really is.

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A Better Way To Cook

Everything tastes better when you make it yourself. Okay, not everything. But all the recipes and ingredients that come in a Blue Apron box are way better than whatever half-eaten leftovers you were planning on eating in front of the TV tonight.

THE RIGHT TO NOT BE FORGOTTEN

A couple of months ago, I pitched a feature on the music industry that I was totally qualified to write. But the editor questioned my experience: What exactly had I published about the music industry? By my count, over two thousand blogposts since 2009. But the links to my author pages bounced back because the websites had disappeared.

NOW JUST A TERRIBLE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS

The conflict that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s included widespread killing, rape, and torture, says the International Court of Justice in The Hague. But the court said Tuesday that the acts can't be deemed genocide, something both Croatia and Serbia have claimed in filings against each other.

CAUSE OF DEATH: INVISIBLE BULLETS

The first of seven amusement machines that would be released before 1978's true video game cabinets, Laser Clay Shooting System wasn't just a pioneer; it could also have spelled disaster for Nintendo's gaming ambitions were it not for the heroism of a man by the name of Genyo Takeda.

NOT GOOD WITH CHANGE

An international team of scientists has discovered the greatest absence of evolution ever reported — a type of deep-sea microorganism that appears not to have evolved over more than 2 billion years. But the researchers say that the organisms' lack of evolution actually supports Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

DRAWING CONCLUSIONS

President Obama’s budget proposal lays out his wish list for the coming year, an opening bid in what is sure to be a protracted negotiation with Republican congressional leaders over the coming weeks and months. It sets the stage for the perennial debate about how much the government should spend, and how. Here are some key takeaways from the president’s budget plan, charted.

HOME SWEET HOMEWRECK

Within weeks of moving in, their new floors buckled. Their pipes froze. Their ceiling cracked. They also say that their foundation began to shift. One day, just months after signing their mortgage, they became so concerned with the condition of the house that they grabbed their cats, packed their car and fled — afraid their walls might collapse.

WORKING TOGETHER — OR NOT

Are these differences simply the result of arbitrary historical accidents, with some societies — such as those in East Asia — following different cultural paths than others — such as those in Northern Europe? Or do these differences arise from more general processes of adaptation and change?

WALK LIKE A MAN, TALK LIKE A YOUNG WOMAN

Young women, even those in positions of authority, might be met with derision or disapproval if they use these linguistic features which, as it happens, are naturally found not only in the speech of their peers but increasingly in older generations of speakers else as well.