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  • Born To Be Wild: Catholic Nuns Hit The Road
    American Catholic nuns are outraged over federal government budget cuts to programs that help the poor. They're taking their fight to the streets, on a bus tour. This comes at a critical time because of a conflict with the Vatican over "serious doctrinal problems." Host Michel Martin speaks with one road tripping nun, Sister Simone Campbell.
  • First Lady Michelle Obama, here with students from Bancroft Elementary School and Kimball Elementary School, has done a lot to promote healthy family dinners and garden-fresh food.
    Our Obama Family Dinner Survey Shows Brown Rice Is Still A Tough Sell
    Say the words "brown rice," and people of a certain age might conjure images of hippie communes. But the whole-grain product has been slowly gaining in popularity over the last decade. Here are some tips to bring it into the everyday dinner repertoire.
  • How 'Flame' Malware Hijacks A Computer
    Russian antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab has discovered a piece of malware infecting computers mostly in the Middle East. Flame eavesdrops on conversations, takes screenshots and steals data from infected computers without being detected. Wired's Kim Zetter discusses how the malicious code works.
  • What Happens When Two Galaxies Collide?
    In four billion years, the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will collide, according to a study in the Astrophysical Journal. Roeland van der Marel, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, talks about how this discovery was made, and the fate of our solar system.
  • SpaceX Dragon May Ferry Astronauts By 2015
    SpaceX's Dragon capsule has travelled safely to the International Space Station and back. The next step, says Space.com writer Clara Moskowitz, is to outfit the capsule for crew, which SpaceX hopes to complete by 2015. Until then US astronauts will hitch rides on Russia's Soyuz, at about $60 million a pop.
  • A large dock washed ashore early Tuesday on Agate Beach in Oregon. The nearly 70-foot-long dock was torn loose from a fishing port in northern Japan by last year's tsunami and drifted across thousands of miles of Pacific Ocean. Marine scientists are worried that invasive species may be among the 100 tons of marine life that traveled aboard the dock.
    Is Japanese Dock A Noah's Ark Or A Trojan Horse?
    About 100 tons of marine life rode aboard the huge concrete dock that washed ashore in Oregon earlier this week. Marine biologists were shocked to see that Japanese coastal species survived the trans-Pacific trek, but they are also worried about the risk for invasive species.
  • NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Nonfiction, Week Of June 7, 2012
    Michelle Obama's diary of her White House garden, American Grown, debuts at No. 4.
  • NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Fiction, Week Of June 7, 2012
    The Yard, Alex Grecian's tale of early forensics and murder in Victorian London, debuts at No. 13.
  • NPR Bestsellers: Week Of June 7, 2012
    Compiled from weekly surveys of close to 500 independent bookstores nationwide.
  • The London Symphony Orchestra, performing for real at a free concert in Trafalgar Square last month.
    Around The Classical Internet: June 8, 2012
    Miming in London, that new Grammy category, fraud charged in Vienna, and a countertenor on "America's Got Talent": all the news that's fit to link.
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