July 16, 2013: Morning
- George Zimmerman faces at least three more trials in the death of Trayvon Martin—but it's likely he won't lose any of them.
- Abortion is unlike any other issue: Both sides have equal support and face their share of internal challenges
- Let's abolish the Dept. of Homeland Security.
- The world's rice supply is at a 12-year high.
- Australian consumer group pushes water bottlers to quit calling their product "organic," because it's not agricultural.
- Tougher to get into than Princeton, Harvard, or Yale, the Wienermobile offers a unique view of America.
- In 1973 I won a contest run by George Plimpton for the New York Yankees.
- Researchers study the metadata of The Odyssey to map the characters' relationships.
- Geolocated tweets yield maps of where iPhone users live versus Android users.
- Jack Handey isn't Al Franken.
- Starless planets are hardly "rogue"—in fact, Earth could be more of an exception to the rule than we once believed.
- Hubble discovers Neptune's 14th moon, so small Voyager missed it and 100 million times dimmer than the faintest star we can see unaided.
- Beneath Guinea, one of the world's poorest countries, may be a fortune in iron ore.
- Though most Indian farmers have never seen or heard of olives before, India plans to be a leading producer of olive oil.
- Forensic linguist explains how he figured out Robert Galbraith was J.K. Rowling.