July 26, 2012: Morning
- Obama calls for greater common sense in gun-control policies, but offers no details.
- Former boy soldier calls for global treaty to regulate trade in arms.
- New Fiat features an espresso machine that only brews when the car is stopped.
- Pictures from a German's 23-year road trip in a single car.
- RIP, alpinist Roger Payne.
- Try as we might, we can’t find a way to tell a sound causal story about the origins of the universe.
- Report on persuasion techniques—"foot in the door," "door in the face."
- Physicist explains how to firewalk safely (in theory).
- Slave ancestry does not play a large part in black athletes' Olympic success.
- Englishman reports from the first modern Olympics, 1896.
- Artist recreates 1844 photograph in a time-lapse movie.
- New York maitre d' explains how to avoid racial segregation when seating tables.
- Mayor writes letter to Chick-fil-A's president, saying Boston doesn't want his business.
- College president explains what it's like to be told that your visiting scholar is a war criminal.
- Celebrities read mean tweets about themselves.