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We continue our summer reading series with Joi Ito, a venture capitalist and blogger based in Tokyo. Read a short list of books and blogs he's perusing this summer.

At least 18 people have died as massive floods ravaged northeastern India and Bangladesh, leaving millions of homes underwater and severing transport links.

A new study in the journal Sleep provides the strongest evidence yet that the unregulated dietary supplement melatonin helps people get a good night's sleep. Researchers found that it works as well as prescription sleep aids now on the market. Melatonin is available over the counter.

Rosa Lee Parks, the woman known as the "mother of the civil rights movement," turned the course of American history by refusing in 1955 to give up her seat on a bus for a white man.

The alluvial plain that is the Mississippi Delta was once home to a thriving cotton plantation economy. But the decline of manual labor and exodus of manufacturing jobs have made difficult conditions worse in one of the nation's poorest regions.

When Lolita was first published 50 years ago, it was considered by some to be obscene, to others a masterpiece of ficition. But more than 50 million copies later, the book and its beautiful, tragic prose continues to lure new generations of readers.

Don Kroodsma records the unique, regional dialects of both birds and the people who love to listen to them. In his new book, he champions a theory: Like people, birds also have their own "accents."

Robert Hunter on the Roots of the Grateful Dead

It could be easier to plant a bunch of signs in your yard in Normal. Town staff have requested that the council ask the Planning Commission to rework the sign ordinance.

College softball's Oklahoma Sooners have won 57 games this season, and have lost just three. And 40 of those wins came through the mercy rule.