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News & Views
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says the testing doesn't save enough lives to justify the risk of unnecessary surgery and radiation. But one t...
Facebook stock is slumping, as is everything else on the NASDAQ. Were the naysayers right? There's been a lot of talk of the potential losers from JPM...
A majority minority births now in the USA. We'll ask what that means....
Why we are spending less time on the phone, a new Libyan law that makes it a crime to glorify the Gaddafi regime, and a Liberian journalist who dares ...
Dr. Robert Spitzer's research was widely cited by those who conduct conversion therapy as proof that it worked. Dr. Spitzer says his findings were mis...
Over the weekend, Hikaru Nakamura won the 2012 U.S. Chess Championship in St. Louis, Missouri. He's the top-ranked chess player in the country, and is...
TIME Magazine's Adam Sorensen * Author Valaida Fullwood * Journalist James Mills * Donna Summer Tribute...
To be a parent is to be constantly reminded that almost everything you thought you were doing right for your children will one day turn out to be wron...
Out West Sunday, it will start getting dark earlier than normal, but just for a little while. A major solar eclipse, although not quite total, will sp...
Entertainment
This week's Car Talk kicks off with one listener's brilliant (and only sorta wacko) theory: a non-essential repair on an old car creates a parallel un...
We're got James Mercer of The Shins in rare, solo acoustic mode. And Jim and Greg review the new Norah Jones/Danger Mouse project.
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Art is changing medicine. Music helps patients recover in a burn unit and medical students learn how honing their narrative skills will make them bett...
This week, the radio debut of the episode we just did live on stage and beamed to movie theatres all over the country. David Sedaris, David Rakoff, Ti...
Carl reads descriptions of three new TV shows based on the week's news, and a caller has to guess what they're about: Bye-Bye Billions, Hello Billions...
This week on Whad'Ya Know?... All the News that Isn't... A.J. Jacobs nearly killed himself to be healthy... Michael's daughter has a favorite professo...
On its new album, the fleet-fingered duo revisits its material with the aid of a 13-piece orchestra....
International
Controversy over new report on UK employment-practices / Funeral of man convicted of Lockerbie bombing / Could women play key role in Egypt's election...
Marking 40 years of David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spider from Mars...
It's now nearly 48 hours after the football match in Port Said that ended in perhaps one of the most significant tragedies of recent times.
74 fans w...
Culture
We’ve all had a teacher we’ve loved, who changed our lives and believed in us. God bless ‘em. And we’ve all had teachers...
Sarah Kay is a 23-year-old spoken word poet who has become a role model and teacher to teenagers around the world. Millions have viewed her TED talk, ...
Topic: The Joys of Flexibility for Working Parents
Guest: Ellen Galinsky, President of Families and Work Institute...
Listen To Our Podcast: 858 Drug DangersClearing Congestion without Punishing the ProstateChocolate Stars as Hiccup CureDid Cholesterol Drug Trigger AL...
In The Key 3, chef Andrea Reusing makes overnight braised short ribs, turnip soup and a tomato salad. Jane and Michael Stern are at The Blue Bonnet Ca...
We begin our series on social class: how it's shaped societies around the world, and how it's changing today. Also, Egypt's presidential election -- a...
Siberia is the name for a place we tend to think of as a metaphor as much as a destination on the map. Writer Ian Frazier indulged what he calls his d...
