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Wednesday, May 23, 2012 | 11:00 AM
What happens when toddlers take to iPads? (S_Ishimaru/Flickr)

Young children and high technology. What happens when toddlers take to iPads?…

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Monday, May 7, 2012 | 10:00 AM
The social networking site Facebook says it plans to go public later this month. (AP)

The world’s largest social network readies its IPO. Do you want in?

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Friday, May 4, 2012 | 11:00 AM
An unidentified produce employee restocks the shelf of bagged lettuce at a grocery store in Berkeley, Calif. (AP)

On a crowded planet, it may get strange. We’ll dig in.

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Friday, April 27, 2012 | 11:00 AM
This computer-generated image provided by Planetary Resources, a group of high-tech tycoons that wants to mine nearby asteroids, shows a conceptual rendering of a spacecraft preparing to capture a water-rich, near-Earth asteroid. The group's mega-million dollar plan is to use commercially built robotic ships to squeeze rocket fuel and valuable minerals like platinum and gold out of the lifeless rocks that routinely whiz by Earth. One of the company founders predicts they could have their version of a space-based gas station up and running by 2020. (AP)

Some scientists and entrepreneurs say they’ll go to outer space for precious metals. We’ll think about that.

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Thursday, April 26, 2012 | 10:00 AM
photo illustration (Alex Kingsbury/WBUR)

Online apps can now track our moods, relationships, exercise and health. We look at the “Digital Self,” and where it’s taking us.

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Monday, April 2, 2012 | 10:00 AM
Christopher Astacio reads with his daughter Cristina, 2, recently diagnosed with a mild form of autism, in her bedroom on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 in New York. Autism cases are on the rise again, largely due to wider screening and better diagnosis, federal health officials said Thursday, March 2012. (AP)

Reported autism rates skyrocket – one child in 88 now has an autism diagnosis. One in 54 boys. We’ll take a look behind the sobering numbers.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012 | 11:00 AM
George Dyson (credit Ann Yow-Dyson)

Science historian George Dyson on the birth of the digital age, and where we stand now.

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Monday, March 12, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Apps during an Apple announcement in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 7, 2012. (AP)

A new iPad and the avalanche of “apps,” all over. We’ll look at everyday life in the age of apps.

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Friday, March 9, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Guffaw (lintmachine/Flickr)

Giggles, chortles, twitters and full-on guffaws – we’ll look at the science of laughter. We need it!

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Monday, March 5, 2012 | 10:00 AM
In this image made from Japan's NTV/NNN Japan television, smoke ascends from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant's Unit 3 in Okumamachi, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked Japan's stricken nuclear plant Monday, sending a massive column of smoke into the air and wounding 11 workers. (AP)

Yoichi Funabashi, the man who led Japan’s top investigation into the Fukushima nuclear disaster gives us the inside story on a national tragedy.

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May 17, 2013
Attorney General Eric Holder gestures as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 15, 2013, before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Justice Department. (AP)

IRS and AP scandals. White House damage control. More military sex abuse. Angelina Jolie. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

May 17, 2013
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Great quotations. What makes them? And how they shape our language and our view of the world

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May 16, 2013
U.S. pianist , composer and music producer Burt Bacharach performs during a concert at the Arena Civica in Milan, Italy, Wedneday, July 6, 2011. (AP)

The wizard of pop. From “Raindrops” to “Walk On By.” Burt Bacharach joins us with his new memoir of a life in music.

 
May 16, 2013
Graduates from various institutions take part in the Toss Your Caps: Philly Graduates College photo opportunity on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Friday, May 20, 2011, in Philadelphia. (AP)

Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on how student debt is crushing the American dream, and what to do about it.

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Friday, May 17, 2013

Adventures in live radio. Richard Snow, our guest for our show on Henry Ford, was held up — possibly by a faulty Model T? — so we’re running a terrific archive show on great quotations.

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Floyd Abrams On Obama Vs. Nixon
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Floyd Abrams — one of the country’s leading authorities on the First Amendment — joined us today to talk about revelations that the Justice Department seized two months of phone records from the Associated Press.

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Dr. Judy Garber On Angelina Jolie’s Cancer Decision
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Dr. Judy Garber — director of the Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute — joined us for the final segment of our show today to talk about star Angelina Jolie’s decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy.

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