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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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Monday, February 27, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Jamie Hyneman, left, "Buster" the crash-test dummy and Adam Savage, right, during a segment of the Discovery Channel's show "Mythbusters." (AP)

Could a penny dropped form the Empire State Building kill you? MythBusters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman are with us.

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ONPOINT
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Jun 19, 2013
Border Texas

As the Senate debate over immigration heats up, we go to South Texas, the new front line in the battle over illegal border crossings.

Jun 19, 2013
Sir Ken Robinson. (Photo: Martin Mancha.)

Sir Ken Robinson, who gave the most watched TED Talk ever, tells us how to find what really makes us tick, and get the most out of life and work.

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Jun 18, 2013
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon in 1969. (NASA)

In the days of the Space Race, they became overnight celebrities as their husbands shot for the Moon. The Astronaut Wives Club.

 
Jun 18, 2013
Murnaghan Family

Are lab grown blood vessels, hearts and lungs the answer to the nation’s organ donor shortage? We’ll look at the brave new science.

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Questions on Civil Rights Champion Medgar Evers?
Wednesday, Jun 5, 2013

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. We’ll be talking about his life and legacy. What are your questions about Evers, about civil rights now?

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What’s Your Question For Mark Bittman?
Tuesday, Jun 4, 2013

We’ve got a terrific On Point Live event coming up this Thursday evening. Tom will be interviewing food author and columnist Mark Bittman at the Paramount Theater in Boston.

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Tick Tock: The Secrets To Your Relationship To Time
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Claudia Hammond, author of “Time Warped: Unlocking The Mysteries Of Time Perception,” told us new memories make you feel like there’s more time, whereas routine makes it seem like the weeks and years zip by.

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