July 21, 2011: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Lack of coordination, rivalries threaten Libyan rebels' goal of toppling Gadhafi.
- Minister hopes London factions can reconcile differences over who gets to wear pearl buttons.
- TSA to introduce new scanner software that shows hidden objects, but not naked passengers.
- How an occult philosophy could be the missing piece in the oversimplified Galileo-versus-church saga.
- Play-by-play account of Bull Run, first major Civil War battle.
- With few renewable resources at hand, Japan's energy demands outweigh its non-nuclear options.
- Wealthy parents build ritzy playhouses—replete with flatscreens and A/C.
- Braving cancer risk, embalmers install new ventilation, vow to continue formaldehyde use.
- Remeasuring a mountain.
- America soon to welcome tobacco lozenges, a dissolvable pellet of finely cured tobacco, binders, and flavor.
- Jonah Lehrer on how the neuroscience of curiosity could provide an answer for why beauty exists.
- Judging by candidates' coherence, the first-ever presidential Twitter debate could be the last.
