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With billions of Tumblr blogs out there and millions of tweets per day, the Internet just keeps growing. Is there a limit? Markus Hoffman, head of Bell Labs Research, says yes — and we're approaching it.

U.S. stock futures are up today, a day after the stock market closed at record highs. Given the still sluggish economy, why is the stock market doing so well?

Tax carbon emissions. That's basically the whole plan.

Why keep a score card at a baseball game? Because baseball, like life, doesn't come with its own interpretation. It is up to each of us to make sense. Whether you like baseball or not, commentator Alva Noë thinks we have something to learn from the practice of keeping score.

Food is one of the most important world-building tools in a writer's kit — it defines a world and the people in it. Self-described "food writer with a wicked sci-fi addiction" Jason Sheehan muses on food in science fiction — and whether, in the future, we'll all be eating dinner in pill form.

The front man for the legendary Brazilian band stops by to discuss Os Mutantes and the protests that are rocking the South American giant.

The Voynich Manuscript, a mysterious late-medieval document filled with illustrations and strange text, has befuddled countless would-be translators. Is it a book of natural science? Alchemy? Herbology? Astronomy? No one knows, because no one's been able to decipher it.

You're given a series of clues, and every answer is the name of a U.S. state capital.

New York Times Magazine reporter Mark Leibovich's new book This Town is a lively look at media, politics and money in Washington. Leibovich tells NPR that most people outside don't understand what a carnival of money and celebrity the city has become.

Rev. Jesse Jackson is calling on the U.S. Justice Department to file criminal civil rights charges against Zimmerman. He's comparing the verdict to civil rights-era cases.