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Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra Music Director Calor Miguel Prieto talks with Farrar Hudkins about this weekend's LPO concerts, including the Brahms…

By the standards of marketing, especially political ads, the RNC's ad is a great success since it has generated so much free media, including blog posts like this.

When researchers showed subjects pictures of Jennifer Aniston, very specific neurons lit up. And these neurons weren't triggered by pictures of other people. This curious finding is one that brain scientists hope to solve by tracing the pathways in the human brain and creating a map called a connectome.

Want to hear a joke about sodium hypobromite? NaBrO! Can science be the butt of a good joke? Ira Flatow and guests test the hypothesis in an annual April Fools' joke-a-thon. They share the best gags in the business. Sidesplitting or groan-worthy? You decide.

The decision was made to keep right-wing extremists from using the graves as a pilgrimage site.

They say it's like a whole other country, but in 1836 it really was one. Now, 167 years after Texas achieved statehood, NPR is re-liberating the Longhorn State. From big-hair foreign policy to laissez-faire economics, this is what a modern Republic of Texas might look like.

Harvard accepted 5.9 percent, the lowest number on record.

A government advisory committee has reconsidered its advice to keep certain details of bird flu experiments secret. Revised versions of manuscripts that describe two recent studies can be openly published, the committee now says. The decision could help end a debate that has raged within the scientific community for months.

Commentator Andre Perry talks about how to make an inclusive workforce.The Greater New Orleans Community Data Center just released the report, Building an…

Andre Perry discusses the Trayvon Martin shooting and our society.In his classic essay titled “Shooting an Elephant,” George Orwell writes of a colonial,…