July 17, 2012: Morning
- An overview of the rumors and reports of Assad's arsenal—from obsolete tanks to the latest in anti-aircraft.
- FDA approves drug for prevention of HIV transmission for those at high risk of contracting the disease.
- Brian Lam visits the last undersea research station.
- How whales defend themselves from all the noise humans make underwater—they turn down their hearing.
- The new front in the war on drugs: Prescription painkillers render the last four decades of drug policy irrelevant.
- Fewer than one in a million people have "congenital analgesia," the feeling of no pain.
- When the time is right and his brain-slicing technology is finished, one scientist will kill himself in order to live forever.
- I wasn't concentrating on Romney's rhetoric... I was trying to see the Mormon in him.
- Graham Coxon and Stephen Street discuss how they made Blur's Parklife.
- For $8,000, sorority consultants help young women get into their Greek chapter of choice.
- The politics of Mexican food and how a chicken taquito is not unlike a stick of dynamite.
- Skeptical of officials' claims of water safety, Mexico becomes the world's largest per-capita consumer of bottled water.