July 16, 2012: Afternoon
- From Capitol Hill to the Treasury Department, interviews granted only with quote approval have become the default position.
- Evidence surfaces of police surveillance on political campaigners at Glastonbury Festival.
- "Occupy" is now a summer camp.
- When carrying condoms becomes evidence of intent for sex workers.
- In countries where big families are the norm, most parents say they want fewer children.
- A store near the Austin airport sells items confiscated by the TSA—from snow globes to nail clippers to Swiss Army knives.
- Unseasonable rain in the UK has helped snails and slugs, but for other wildlife it's been "almost apocalyptic."
- In a reversal, new disease strains now reach humans because of our encroachment on their natural habitat.
- The popularity of chicken is causing a drug-resistant superbug, and we're seeing it in humans as incurable UTIs.
- Encyclopedia Brown author Donald J. Sobol dies, age 87.
- In the end, all those Higgs-Boson metaphors probably did more help than harm.
- Since the end of the recession, 2.6 million jobs have been created, and 80% of them have gone to men.
- The Daily Mail's illustrated guide to dinosaur sex.
- Star Wars gets the "Call Me Maybe" treatment.