Morning Links for May 10 2013

Morning Links for May 10 2013

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the Morning Links of our lives. The Journal Sentinel has a deep report on the mental state of the man who killed three people in a home in northern Wisconsin. Controversy has tainted plans for a new choice school forming under Racine’s fledgling voucher program, The Journal Times reports. Federal officials have moved aggressively to limit the spread of plans for making a small handgun using a 3-D printer, The Guardian says. Big surprise, the latest Baz Luhrmann film (The Great Gatsby) is overwrought, according to a number of reviews like this one from the…

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the Morning Links of our lives.

  • The Journal Sentinel has a deep report on the mental state of the man who killed three people in a home in northern Wisconsin.
  • Controversy has tainted plans for a new choice school forming under Racine’s fledgling voucher program, The Journal Times reports.
  • Federal officials have moved aggressively to limit the spread of plans for making a small handgun using a 3-D printer, The Guardian says.
  • Big surprise, the latest Baz Luhrmann film (The Great Gatsby) is overwrought, according to a number of reviews like this one from the New York Daily News.
  • Sometimes the simplest places contain the greatest complexities: Mathematicians have created models that simulate the wiggling and popping of bubbles in a blob of foam. This news release from UC Berkeley shows the researchers’ work in action.
  • Should retired football players be treated like military veterans? The Washington Post considers who’s responsible for paying their often-astronomical medical bills.

Matt has written for Milwaukee Magazine since 2006, when he was a lowly intern. Since then, he’s held the posts of assistant news editor and, most recently, senior editor. He’s lived in South Carolina, Tennessee, Connecticut, Iowa, and Indiana but mostly in Wisconsin. He wants to do more fishing but has a hard time finding worms. For the magazine, Matt has written about city government, schools, religion, coffee roasters and Congress.