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Get your free tickets: you are invited to a live, on-stage event on June 14 in Washington, D.C., NPR Science Desk Correspondents explore the science behind deception and self-deception with live storytelling, audience discussion and original multimedia.

Tunisia's president is a former doctor and human-rights activist who was jailed under the previous regime. In an interview with NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep, he says expectations are high and jobs are scarce following last year's Arab Spring revolution.

Claude Monet is famous for his impressionist paintings, but a new exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden looks at the horticultural skill that informed his art. One horticulturalist says, "Monet would never have been the painter he became if he wasn't the gardener he was."

The European Union is set to stop all purchases of Iranian oil on July 1. Exports are already down, and lower prices means less profit on sales that do go through. So far, Tehran refuses to budge on its nuclear activities. But analysts say Iran has no clear way around the boycott.

Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury died Tuesday at the age of 91. Among other things, he wrote The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451. Commentator Andrew Chaikin talks about the influence Bradbury had on science and the space program.

Today: Simon Cowell, Return Of The Jedi, London's weird museums, and lots more.

A dock washed away by the March 2011 natural disaster landed on an Oregon beach this week. It is 66 feet long, 19 feet wide and 7 feet tall.

There were 377,000 first-time claims for unemployment insurance, down 12,000 from the week before. But the number of claims for the previous week was revised up.

Russian crooner Eduard Khil died in St. Petersburg this week from complications from a stroke. Khil burst onto the world scene when one of his older music clips was uploaded to the internet. The Trololo Song became a worldwide sensation.

BATON ROUGE — With the state strapped for cash, Louisiana lawmakers have turned to the state's construction budget for their pet projects.In coordination…