July 24, 2013: Morning
- White House defends NSA's data-collection programs prior to House's vote today on their legality.
- Human rights organization launches poster campaign to find surviving Nazis in Germany.
- Comprehensive list of Florida's other "stand your ground" cases.
- Florida man, 99 years old, still working after more than 84 years.
- Portraits of daily life from six American towns called Boonville.
- Pictures of the American Southwest in the early 1970s as covered by the photographers of the Documerica Project.
- Bulgaria is the oldest nation in Europe. Maybe it’s time for us to disappear.
- World's worst sentence: "Yet the nightmare cast its shroud in the guise of a contagion of a deer-in-the-headlights paralysis."
- Linguists help misguided doctor who says various Africans lack a word for "diarrhea" because it's so common.
- Theorem predicts the sun may finally set over the British Empire if sea levels rise high enough from global warming.
- Star number cruncher—called the New York Times' Brad Pitt, by the New York Times—leaves for ESPN.
- Terrific story about pitcher Tomohiro Anraku and the unique culture that is Japanese baseball.
- Never much of a musician, 40-something man joins tiny village choral group and discovers Brian Eno's heaven.
- Esquire interviews Manuel, man who designed Little Richard's purple jacket and made Johnny Cash "The Man in Black."
- Spy movies are actually about tourism.
- New book explains what orchestra conductors actually do.
- Related: Novice conducts orchestra by waving pencil, only to discover the musicians are following him.