Measles cases are a record high. Why? Anti-vaxxers.

Watch Detroit crumble over time with images from Google.

RIP Metafilter.

David Leonhardt looks at the unemployment rate of community college graduates and see a bad number (4.8% percent compared to 3.4% for BA graduates). I think it’s good. (High school graduates have a 7.4% unemployment rate.) Glass half full or half empty?

Name PORN! 538 looks at the average age of the most common girl and boy names. The median age of a “Laura” is like 38, so I’m feeling very young and peppy this morning.

I do enjoy a good commencement address. This one is about lessons learned as a Navy Seal.

The U.S. economy is still pretty wobbly.

If a woman’s high school friend becomes pregnant, the chance that she will have a baby herself increases, peaking two years after the birth of her friend’s baby.

New York Magazine talks to romance writer, Mary Bly, who writes under the pen name Eloisa James, a Fordham English professor and Shakespeare scholar who has degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and Yale — oh, and she’s also married to an Italian knight and is the daughter of poet Robert Bly. James spoke via Skype from Italy about the connection between feminism and romance, intellectual snobbery, and what romance readers and John Green fans have in common.