July 24, 2012: Afternoon
- Fighter jets bomb areas of Syria's second city of Aleppo; Russia expects Syria not to use chemical weapons.
- Man in goat suit seen living among goats in Utah mountains.
- Serbia becomes global hub for sex-change surgery.
- Writer looks for Fitzgerald's first love in Lake Forest, Ill., to find the origins of Daisy Buchanan.
- It took 13 years to build the original bread-slicing machine.
- Forty years of satellite photography from the Landsat program.
- Data on putting balls through hoops.
- Tennis's wacky scoring system stems from eggs and clocks, perhaps.
- A humane punishment for Penn State would have been a one-year death penalty—not a sentence of perpetual losing.
- How to attend this summer's Olympic Games in London without dying.
- Ruminations on a candid photo from a recent Team USA dinner.
- Domestic airlines generated $3.4 billion in revenue from checked bags last year.
- Sarah Hepola on why every woman should travel alone.
- See also: Pictures from Hepola's trip across the country.
- Gear chosen by tech expert Brian Lam for your next big road trip.